What's the difference between monomaniac and obsess?

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".

Obsess


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
  • (2) Associated features include previous illness phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • (3) As a young teenager I was obsessed with sex: to be held in a man's arms would confirm that I was a woman.
  • (4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (5) Efficacy assessments included the child version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the National Institute of Mental Health Global rating scale.
  • (6) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
  • (7) The authors report four patients with disabling obsessive thoughts who responded in dramatic fashion to antidepressant medication.
  • (8) In this article, obsessive compulsive disorder, its subtypes, and epidemiologic features are described.
  • (9) So do the IEA's obsessions just happen to coincide with those of the cigarette firms?
  • (10) Atropine-comatose therapy was performed in 18 patients with schizophrenia and disorders in the framework of an obsessive-syndrome.
  • (11) The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides.
  • (12) A principal axis factor analysis with a Promax rotation was performed on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
  • (13) The main phenomenological differences between hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have been interpreted as expressive of the lower and higher levels of intrapsychic integration respectively.
  • (14) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • (15) You described it as being an obsession," the judge said.
  • (16) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
  • (17) Michael Philpott's obsession with Lisa Willis was nothing to do with you.
  • (18) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (19) One that sentimentality is obsessed by while funds are disproportionately siphoned away from the other 20,933 species facing extinction .
  • (20) Reality television molded Trump into the ratings and polls-obsessed performer that we know today, and created a new generation of Americans ready to be entertained by him.

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