Definitionn. a mania restricted to one thing or idea
Last update: August 7, 2015
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It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted. [Please select]
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But Sam would have none of it, and Dick easily dropped the subject, relapsing into his grim monomania of pursuit. [Please select]
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As his strength ebbed Dick Herron's energies concentrated more and more to his monomania of pursuit. [Please select]
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But Glure's keenest disappointment--a disappointment that crept gradually up toward the monomania point--was the annoyingly continual emptiness of his trophy-shelves. [Please select]
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Jefferson, now in retirement, had long since nursed his antipathy for the Federal Judiciary to the point of monomania. [Please select]
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It is not his toil, but his hobby, passion, vice, monomania--any vituperative epithet you like to bestow on it. [Please select]
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"Peter," he said finally, "this is getting to be a monomania." [Please select]
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Some people have a monomania for one thing and some for another. [Please select]
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He began to see red when he heard of or saw lightness in a married woman, and the outside world frequently said that this characteristic bordered on monomania. [Please select]
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Very likely this fancy springs from an enthusiastic pride which may have turned to delirium; but it will be admitted at least that I have plenty of company, and that my madness is not monomania. [Please select]
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