monomaniacn.adj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪak/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˈmeɪniæk/ A. n.
A person with monomania; a person who has a monomania or craze.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [noun] > devotion to single idea > suffer from
monomaniac1827
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > madness in one or many aspects > person
monomaniac1827
monomane1846
1827 Lancet 6 Jan. 442/1 He might be disposed to raise a laugh at Larrey, and slily call him an old woman and a mono-maniac, as if he were mad on one subject.
1831 C. Badham tr. Juvenal Satires (new ed.) vi. 69 (note) This is a subject on which most of us are incorrigible monomaniacs.
1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon I. 167 The old gentleman is a monomaniac on the subject of society.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vii. 322 A small army of wandering monomaniacs..were roaming about London.
1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iv. xxxiii. 488 Falco was a monomaniac.
1958 J. Barth End of Road ix. 144 Or you could say he's just insane, a monomaniac.
1978 A. Storr in J. O'Neill Land under Eng. 7 He sees him for what he is, a monomaniac possessed with hatred for all who do not share his obsessions or conform to his beliefs.
1992 Time 6 Jan. 38/2 Turner had struck some of those who know him as a joyless monomaniac who pursued achievement.
B. adj.
= monomaniacal adj.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > madness in one aspect
monomaniacal1833
monomaniac1836
monomanious1872
monoideistic1884
1836 J. Paget Let. 29 Nov. in Mem. & Lett. (1901) v. 93 He is certainly a sharp fellow, but I should think rather monomaniac on the reflections.
1849 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 24 Oct. (1954) I. 318 How does she manage to endure her life with that poor monomaniac husband.
1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. iii. 75 And of these were Abraham and his children, who have given to the modern world for an endless enigma the almost monomaniac monotheism of the Jews.
1985 P. Zeigler Mountbatten i. ii. 32 The Navy..looked inward at its own operations with monomaniac if often justified satisfaction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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