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
And with the arguable exception of “Mission: Impossible’s” Ethan Hunt, few Cruise characters have felt as aligned with that monomania as Maverick.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022
Sometime in “Joy Womack: The White Swan,” determination starts to look like monomania, even if the directors, Dina Burlis and Sergey Gavrilov, never tip their hands on where they stand.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021
One of the chief impediments to me listening to it all, and something I have to actively fight against every day, is a natural tendency to musical monomania.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
