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Meanings of monomania in English

Portuguese
monomania
Catalan
monomania

A mania restricted to one thing or idea.

monomania
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Examples for "possession"
Examples for "possession"
1
Challenge from Hetherington was fair in normal course of competition for possession.
News.com.au
2
It gave Utah State possession at the New Mexico State 24-yard line.
Reuters
3
Perhaps they explain all cases of what used to be called possession.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
4
Singer George Michael was today charged with possession of cannabis, police said.
The Irish Times
5
Finally one may, among all these, cite a clear case of possession.
Down There
Usage of monomania in English
1
A hobby is the happy medium between a passion and a monomania.
La Grande Breteche
2
It became with him, during the weeks before its appearance, a monomania.
Fortitude
3
Some people have a monomania for one thing and some for another.
The Shuttle
4
It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents.
Bleak House
5
They dream of landed property; it is their fixed idea, their fruitful monomania.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
6
And soon the king unconcernedly gazed; his monomania having departed as a dream.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
7
In these men, the cherished and amiable monomania of gifted minds was realized.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
8
He thought of it constantly, so that it became a monomania.
Of Human Bondage
9
One would almost suppose that it was a sort of monomania with you.
True Love's Reward / A Sequel to Mona
10
He was sleepless, excitable, and possessed by the monomania of persecution.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
11
But you have to salute the skill with which Li's monomania is executed.
The Guardian
12
No doubt she was mentally deranged, and her special craze was religious monomania.
Dr. Dumany's Wife
13
The shadow of Rousseau's monomania will be felt thick upon them:-
Classic French Course in English
14
He is said to have been a virtuous youth, whose monomania was shooting.
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
15
I should fall into a monomania, and one of a very loathsome kind.'
Demos
16
In another age, Galton's monomania with quantification might have made him a freak.
The lost city of z: a tale of deadly obsession in the amazon
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