Crossword-Solution: MONOMANIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monomania | n. | Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “MONOMANIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MENTAL derangement on one subject | 1 answer |
| Sole preoccupation | 1 answer |
| obsession with one thing | 1 answer |
| Singular obsession | 1 answer |
| Single-mindedness | 1 answer |
| Overconcentration on one theme. | 1 answer |
| Obsessive zeal for a single thing | 1 answer |
| Obsession with single idea or thing | 1 answer |
| Obsession with a single subject | 1 answer |
| Intense focus | 1 answer |
| An obsessive preoccupation with one thing | 1 answer |
| fixed idea | 4 answers |
| opiniatry | 6 answers |
| idee fixe | 10 answers |
| A MANIA RESTRICTED TO ONE THING OR IDEA | 11 answers |
| ruling passion | 26 answers |
| Obsession | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MONOMANIA (5)
Light, having failed to make her own fortune in matrimony, has transferred her hopes to her daughter, and nursed them till they have become a kind of monomania.
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.
But at other times he had said to himself--with a shivering soul cowering within him--that this was only part of it all and was a beginning, perhaps, of religious monomania.
The strange persistence of these fourteen martyrs might seem to point to monomania or a series of romantic passions; gin is the more likely key.
Judging from many traditionary anecdotes, this peculiar temper was hardly less than a monomania; or, if the acts which it inspired were those of a sane person, it seemed due from Providence that pride so sinful should be followed by as severe a retribution.
Quotes with MONOMANIA (3)
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.
Marxist writers are generally either indifferent or mildly hostile to the anti-capitalist movement, which they see as no good substitute for the great projects of communism and social democracy. Now, in one sense this is quite justified[…] However, there seems very little reason to believe that a return to the tactics of the twentieth-century labour movement is going to achieve anything in the future… [W]hat is wrong with commodification is not commodification per se… Marxist…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2018).