monomania

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Recent Examples of monomania In this opera about monomania and desperation, the stakes somehow seem low. Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025 Coaches and judges exacerbated students’ monomania. Tess McNulty, Harper's Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022 Because as is now clear, Putin’s monomania about controlling Ukraine—its military, its economy, its entire sovereignty—stems not from security arrangements, but from pure, unadulterated neo-imperialism, and a desire to reclaim territories Putin believes belong to Moscow. Casey Michel, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022 The monomania of getting into the sky transcends any barrier that puts him on the ground. Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2022 In conceiving the project, Fournier and Marty invented a backstory and built their décor around it with the zany monomania of a Wes Anderson movie. Joshua Levine, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018 The textualist monomania seems to grate especially on Ginsburg, who was famously close with Scalia. Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018 Fischer’s defiant monomania already had many worried during his adolescence. Ann Hulbert, Time, 10 Jan. 2018 There are a few problems with the notion that Trump is to blame for our collective political monomania. Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomania
Noun
  • This new obsession manifested itself in strange ways.
    Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
  • What began as a neighborhood favorite quickly turned into a national obsession.
    Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That would be you, the audience, fed a royal jelly concocted of dream, fantasy, myth, popcorn, even delusion.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Many of these protagonists endure the tedium and humiliation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, losing days and years to paralyzing inertia, and experiencing terrifying delusions of persecution and betrayal.
    Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With my driving phobia… Separating from my wife was literally the worst.
    Ilana Masad, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Lilian, with a phobia of reptiles, nevertheless gathered the courage for her children’s sake, running a finger along the back of the boa constrictor.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Monomania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomania. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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