monomania
Example Sentences
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It turns out you can pay a lot for the privilege of real-time “re-enactments,” and he does, commissioning a series of increasingly elaborate set pieces whose pursuit soon curdles into monomania.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
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
Money plus monomania can make a guy crazy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2022
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
Vocabulary lists containing monomania
It's Madness!: Mania
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The Time Machine
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Bleak House
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