monomania
Example Sentences
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But Schiff feels uneasy with his suspicious monomania that rejected any “peace and quiet” in governance.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
But it also has something to do with the 59-year-old Cruise’s close stewardship of his own superhuman image, a commitment that speaks to his talent as well as his monomania.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022
A similar monomania is back for this latest boom in Black screen expression.
From New York Times • May 20, 2021
Instead of wanting to imitate Bart and Homer, young Hill began to write Simpsons screenplays, and kept at it until he was 16, a monomania seen more often in pianists and Olympians.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019
He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing monomania
It's Madness!: Mania
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The Time Machine
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