Monomania

Definition: Monomania

Monomania

Noun

1. A mania restricted to one thing or idea.

Date "monomania" was first used: 1823. (references)

Note: Monomania \Mon`o*ma"ni*a\, noun. [Mono- mania.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Medicine	Partial insanity. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In Psychiatry a monomania (from Greek 'monos', one, and 'mania', mania) is a type of paranoia in which the patient has only one idea or type of ideas. Emotional monomania is that in which the patient is obsessed with only one emotion or several related to it; intellectual monomania is that related to an only kind of delirious idea or ideas. See also mania, psychosis. In colloquial terms, monomania is often attached to subcultures that to the general public appear esoteric. Hence terms like fanboy, anorak, otaku and so forth.

Like everything else, the difference between monomania and passion is very subtle and difficult to recognize.

Synonym: Monomania

Synonym: possession (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insanity	Fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice); kleptodipsomania; hypochondriasis; (low spirits); melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia.
Obstinacy	Bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry, opiniativeness; fixed idea; (prejudgment); fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania; opinionatedness opinionativeness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Monomania

English words defined with "monomania": monomaniac, Musicomania ♦ To have on the brain. (references)

Specialty definitions using "monomania": Auri. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Monomania" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (monomania), Portuguese (monomaniac).

Domain	Title
Music	Monomania (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Monomania" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Monomania" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "monomania"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		monomani. (various references)

Arabic		‏المس الأحادي. (various references)

Bulgarian		мономания, идея фикс (fixation, hobbyhorse, obsession). (various references)

French		monomanie. (various references)

Greek		μονομανία (hobby, kink, obsession). (various references)

Hebrew		מו� ומ� י�", ש�'עון ל�"בר אח�" (obsession). (various references)

Hungarian		monománia (obsession), rögeszme (craze, crotchet, kink, obsession). (various references)

Italian		monomania. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monochrome, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomaniac, monomer, monopolize, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotone, monotype, moped, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, morality, moratorium, Morris dance, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex), 偏狂 (monomaniac), 偏執狂 (monomaniac). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		モノマニア , へ�"しつきょう (monomaniac), へ�"しゅうきょう (monomaniac), へ�"きょう (border, frontier, illiberality, intolerance, monomaniac, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, remote region). (various references)

Pig Latin		onomaniamay

Portuguese		monólogo (monologize). (various references)

Romanian		morb (disease), monomanie, manie (crank, craze, fad, failing, foible, hobby, mania), idee fixã (crank, crotchet, mania). (various references)

Russian		мономания. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		monomanija. (various references)

Spanish		monomanía. (various references)

Swedish		monomani (obsession), fix ide (bug, fixation, idee fixe, kink, obsession). (various references)

Turkish		saplantı (crank, determination, idee fixe, idol, obsession, possession), sabit fikirlilik, sabit fikir (bee, crank, fixed idea, hobbyhorse, idee fixe, obsession). (various references)

Ukrainian		мономанія. (various references)

Vietnamese		độc tưởng (monomaniacal). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	monos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "monomania": monomaniac, monomaniacal, monomaniacally, monomaniacs, monomanias. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Monomania" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Donovania, Manorani, Monemvasia, Monmonier, monoanion, monomani, monomanic, monomedia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "monomania" (pronounced 'Mon`o*ma"ni*a'): Acrania, Adansonia, AEgicrania, Ammonia, Anglomania, Anthomania, Arachnida, Arnica, Bibliomania, Bignonia, Britannia, Caledonia, Campania, Catamenia, Cavicornia, Chelonia, Cleptomania, Dalmania, Daphnia, Darlingtonia, Gallomania, gardenia, hemicrania, hernia, Houstonia, insignia, insomnia, kleptomania, Lamellicornia, Lawsonia, Longicornia, Mahonia, mania, Marsdenia, megalomania, Metromania, Musicomania, Musomania, Naenia, Nenia, Neomenia, nymphomania, OEnomania, Oinomania, Oxyammonia, Paulownia, Petunia, Phyllomania, Planipennia, Pleuropneumonia. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-m-n-n-o-o"
	-2 letters: ammonia.
	-3 letters: ammino, ammono, amnion, nomina.
	-4 letters: amain, amino, amnia, amnio, anima, anion, mania, manna, nomoi, onion.
	-5 letters: amia, amin, ammo, anna, anoa, anon, imam, maim, main, mama, mana, mano, mina, moan, momi, mono, moon, naan, nana, naoi, noma, nona, noon.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-m-n-n-o-o"
	+1 letter: monomaniac, monomanias.
	+2 letters: ammoniation, monomaniacs.
	+3 letters: ammoniations, monomaniacal.
	+5 letters: ammonification, monomaniacally, somnambulation.
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