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monomania

synonyms for monomania

See also synonyms for: monomaniacal / monomaniac

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Each of them had his monomania; and the two monomaniac suited each other perfectly.

Monomania as a defense for crime has brought expert evidence into great disrepute.

The word monomania has been an unfortunate one for scientific psychiatry, because it has been abused to shield criminals.

Monomania is sometimes simply the exaggerated regard to one side of many-sided truth.

Hence we must distinguish between mere eccentricity and monomania.

It is from this case, as a starting point, has arisen the theory of monomania, as applied to testamentary capacity.

Ghost-hunting was my one weakness—perhaps I should say monomania.

THE HAUNTED HOMESTEADE. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH

Would my father's monomania account for the fact of my brother's hair turning grey and my mother wasting away to a mere shadow?

Evidently he took the death of his wife very hard, and it has added to his natural tendency towards a sort of spiritual monomania.

Mr. Kenyon says broadly that it is monomania—neither more nor less.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985