What's the difference between monomane and monomaniac?

Monomane


Definition:

  • (n.) A monomaniac.

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Monomaniac


Definition:

  • (n.) A person affected by monomania.
  • (a.) Alt. of Monomaniacal

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only real obstacle is an electoral system that penalises smaller parties and Ukip's monomaniacal focus on the European Union – though the party can still exert powerful pressure on the political mainstream.
  • (2) And in former Labour strongholds across the north and Wales, the effective opposition will pass to Farage and his band of Westminster discards, monomaniacs and out-and-out racists.
  • (3) Will even the threat of collapse force Cameron to confront and beat his ageing, monomaniac MPs and activists?
  • (4) There's something of The Bridge on the River Kwai about Fitzcarraldo 's monomaniacal passion to bring opera to the jungle.
  • (5) Plurality of methods should be controlled by a holistic medical view, not to become monomaniac.
  • (6) Gaddafi's monomaniacal desire to influence African affairs has left criss-crossing scars across the continent.
  • (7) In 1943, before completing his degree, he was called up into the army, an experience he later claimed cured him of "monomaniacal literariness".
  • (8) As the head of an investigations unit, I was necessarily more of a monomaniac, seeing conspiracies when often – although not always – there were just cock-ups.
  • (9) There is a palpable good to be seen amidst the stench of apparent corruption at the News of the World and the Sun, which is that this corruption – that appears to infect not only newspapers but civil servants accused of taking bribes and police unhealthily close to journalists – was only brought to light by what I would describe as the monomaniac obsession of a print-journalist with an addictive personality.
  • (10) There is proof of its value reflected in the wild eyes of the political monomaniacs who would rip it up.
  • (11) Well a few weeks ago, when City University asked me for the title of this talk, I recklessly supplied the title "addicts, establishment lickspittles and paranoid monomaniacs".

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