monomanian.

1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. iv. 219 To this belong all fixed ideas or monomaniæ.

1823 Q. Jrnl. Foreign & Brit. Med. 5 311 Monomania is sometimes successfully treated with neutral salts in aqua graminis.

1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 833 The term monomania, meaning madness affecting one train of thought..has generally been adopted of late times instead of melancholia.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 584/2 Kleptomania and homicidal monomania are asserted by medical theorists to be forms of mental aberration.

1883 T. S. Clouston Clin. Lect. Mental Dis. 17 The fixed delusional states without excitement or depression come next, the Monomanias.

1946 Jrnl. Hist. Med. 1 395 The concept of monomania greatly widened the field of medical jurisprudence in regard to the insane.

1987 J. Goldstein Console & Classify (1990) v. 153 Monomania captured the lay imagination and acquired the status of a general cultural category.

1990 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 156 2/1 Durkheim also makes a great deal of the diagnosis of monomania. On this he is surprisingly behind the times as by 1897 the term was totally out of date.

1834 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 43 The epidemic monomania which infected the world so largely during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xvi. 171 I call it quite my monomania, it is such a subject of mine.

1866 M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile xxxiii That sort of thing is a monomania with very rich people.

1913 Woman's Home Compan. May 18/2 Why this monomania about the Franchise?

1953 E. Jones Sigmund Freud I. vi. 94 His thoughts ran so exclusively on the subject of eye diseases that..his monomania became rather tiresome to his colleagues.

1990 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Jan. 58/3 One might simply attribute such remarks to the monomania of champions in almost any field.