A mania restricted to one thing or idea.
1 A hobby is the happy medium between a passion and a monomania .
2 It became with him, during the weeks before its appearance, a monomania .
3 Some people have a monomania for one thing and some for another.
4 It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents.
5 They dream of landed property; it is their fixed idea, their fruitful monomania .
6 And soon the king unconcernedly gazed; his monomania having departed as a dream.
7 In these men, the cherished and amiable monomania of gifted minds was realized.
8 He thought of it constantly, so that it became a monomania .
9 One would almost suppose that it was a sort of monomania with you.
10 He was sleepless, excitable, and possessed by the monomania of persecution.
11 But you have to salute the skill with which Li's monomania is executed.
12 No doubt she was mentally deranged, and her special craze was religious monomania .
13 The shadow of Rousseau's monomania will be felt thick upon them:-
14 He is said to have been a virtuous youth, whose monomania was shooting.
15 I should fall into a monomania , and one of a very loathsome kind.'
16 In another age, Galton's monomania with quantification might have made him a freak.
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