(n.) Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just as it’s possible to oppose George Osborne’s initial deficit monomania on sound, Keynesian grounds without wanting to jettison the pound, so it poses no contradiction to demand an end to Merkelism while wanting to hold fast to the euro.
(2) Hatred becomes monomania when the affect degenerates maniacally (e. g. queruousness) or perversely (e. g. misogyny).
(3) That's why the current satirical onslaught against politics as a whole, which amounts sometimes to monomania and increasingly to cliche, ought at the very least to be a proper subject for discussion.
(4) At the trial Baker's attorney argued unsuccessfully that at the time of the crime the accused suffered from monomania, a form of mental disease, and therefore should not be held responsible for the act.
(5) During this period pyromania was variously labeled as a form of monomania, moral insanity, impulsive mania, or instinctive mania.
(6) But it doesn't matter; the company's monomania, it's collective passion is undeniable.
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".