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Meaning of "monomaniacal" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MONOMANIACAL

ˌmɒnəʊməˈnaɪəkəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOMANIACAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Monomaniacal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MONOMANIACAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Monomania

In 19th-century psychiatry, monomania was a form of partial insanity conceived as single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind.:155: 26 Partial insanity, variations of which enjoyed a long pre-history in jurisprudence, was in contrast to the traditional notion of total insanity, exemplified in the diagnosis of mania, as a global condition affecting all aspects of understanding and which reflected the position that the mind or soul was an indivisible entity.:25–6, 31, 39: 243 Coined by the French psychiatrist Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol around 1810,:153 monomania was a new disease-concept characterised by the presence of an expansive idée fixe in which the mind was diseased and deranged in some facets but otherwise normal in others.:157 Esquirol and his circle delineated three broad categories of monomania coherent with the traditional tripartite classification of the mind into intellectual, emotional and volitional faculties.:46 Emotional monomania is that in which the patient is obsessed with only one emotion or several related to it; intellectual monomania is that which is related to only one kind of delirious idea or ideas.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOMANIACAL

ammoniacal · bibliomaniacal · cardiacal · dandiacal · dochmiacal · elegiacal · genethliacal · hypochondriacal · maniacal · megalomaniacal · miracle · nymphomaniacal · oracle · pandemoniacal · paradisiacal · parheliacal · pyromaniacal · simoniacal · theriacal · zodiacal

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOMANIACAL

monomachia · monomachy · monomania · monomaniac · monomaniacally · monomark · monomer · monomeric · monomerous · monometallic · monometallism · monometallist · monometer · monometric · monometrical · monomial · monomode · monomolecular · monomolecularly · monomorphemic

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOMANIACAL

aphrodisiacal · caracal · chemical · clinical · cloacal · critical · demoniacal · dipsomaniacal · egomaniacal · electrical · historical · jacal · local · mechanical · medical · musical · physical · political · practical · technical

Synonyms and antonyms of monomaniacal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monomaniacal» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

刚愎自用
1,325 millions of speakers
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monomaníaco
570 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
510 millions of speakers
hi

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monomaniacal
380 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
280 millions of speakers
ru

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маниакальное
278 millions of speakers
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monomaníaco
270 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
260 millions of speakers
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monomaniaque
220 millions of speakers
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Monomaniacal
190 millions of speakers
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monomanischen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

偏執
130 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Monomaniacal
85 millions of speakers
vi

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monomaniacal
80 millions of speakers
ta

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உணர்வு குழம்பிய
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मोनोमानीकल
75 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
70 millions of speakers
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monomaniacale
65 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
50 millions of speakers
uk

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маніакальне
40 millions of speakers
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mono-maniac
30 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
15 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
14 millions of speakers
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monomaniacal
10 millions of speakers
no

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monomaniacal
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOMANIACAL»

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Nonfiction Film: A Critical History
... appreciate Vertov's achievements and influence, tending, as Bordwell writes, " rather insistently, to dismiss Vertov either as a Russian Lumiere, passively recording reality, or as a monomaniacal formalist." (38). John Grierson found Vertov an ...
Richard Meran Barsam, 1992
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Word Power Made Easy
The obsession itself, or the obsessiveness, is monomania (mon'-a-MAY'-nee-a), the adjective is monomaniacal (mon'-a- ma-NT-a-kal). Monomaniacal, like the adjective forms of various other manias, is tricky to pronounce — practice carefully ...
Norman Lewis, 1991
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Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture
Monsters. Monomaniacal,. Marital,. and. Medical. Tatiana Tolstaya's Regenerative Use of Gender Stereotypes • Amidst the welter of grotesque relationships proliferating in Tatiana Tolstaya's fiction,1 romantic-sexual liaisons particularly stand ...
Jane T. Costlow, Stephanie Sandler, Judith Vowles, 1998
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The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction
^5^. Monsters. Monomaniacal,. Marital,. and. Medical: Tolstaya's. Regenerative. Use. of. Gender. Stereotypes. In . . . the book of Egoism, it is written, Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. George Meredith ...
Helena Goscilo, 1996
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Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after ...
His other, and more important, purpose is to show that, in taking center stage in a drama of epochal struggle, Jones becomes the very savage Word that shapes the world picture, thus enacting symbolically the monomaniacal exceptionalist ...
William V. Spanos, 2009
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The Fundamentals of Business Writing: At Corporations and ...
The adjective form is “monomaniacal,” applicable to a person or entity. One of the prime examples in business is that Howard Hughes, the billionaire with a conglomerate business empire personally owned (private ownership) by him, was ...
Claudine L. Boros, 2012
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A Companion to Herman Melville
The United States was, in short, a monomaniacal nation when Melville wrote MohyDick, a society delicately balancing irreconcilable utopian visions. The Compromise of 1850 sought to avert civil war, but it had the opposite effect. Americans ...
Wyn Kelley, 2008
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Grave Doubts: A Quin and Morgan Mystery
A monomaniacal psychopath couldn't abide sharing credit.” “Monomaniacal?” “ To do the crimes is psychopathic; to plan them, monomaniacal. To conceive of their elaborate contexts, to play author with other people's mortality ... there's only  ...
John Moss, 2009
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Political Extremism and Rationality
This gives four polar combinations: the traditional moderate voter (characterized by a moderately held centrist position), the truly extremist voter now redefined as monomaniacal extremist (strongly held extreme position), the inconsequential ...
Albert Breton, 2002
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Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context
... striking resemblance to him. Presumably, then, marrying Clara is the closest Robert can come to the secret of monomaniacal homosocial desire — and not all homosocial desire is monomaniacal — impelling patriarchal law (31, 130, 13, 173 ...
Marlene Tromp, Pamela K. Gilbert, Aeron Haynie, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOMANIACAL»

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Review: 'Ruthless!,' at St. Luke's, Takes Stage Ambition to the …
She's assisted by an ethics-free talent manager, Sylvia St. Croix (Peter Land), and a monomaniacal drama teacher, Miss Thorn (Andrea ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Which country is the most powerful in the world? *UK smugly points …
... and a governing party that seems monomaniacal about leaving the European Union seriously undermines British soft power”, the report said. «London Loves Business, Jul 15»
3
Literary light shines on planets
... last decade of his life, to the search for a trans-Neptunian planet, which he pursued with monomaniacal — but for him, secretive — intensity.”. «Arizona Daily Sun, Jul 15»
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Abortion: Women deserve protection from pavement bullies at Marie …
It's about the right to go about your daily business - whatever it may be - without some monomaniacal fanatic blocking your path. If the law ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
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House approves overhaul of No Child Left Behind: What would new …
What's changed is there will no longer be that monomaniacal pressure to get each of the subgroups over the reading and math proficiency bar.". «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
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Thought experiment: Aliens vow to destroy US if it doesn't quickly …
I am a fan of virtually every sport that is played on high school and college campuses but I guarantee that the American monomaniacal ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
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Adaptation of 'Moby Dick' puts theatergoers in the belly of a beastly …
Captain Ahab is as monomaniacal as they come, and Christopher Donahue — staring hard into an undiscovered country only he can see ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Pro-coal law set stage for Clean Power Plan pain in rural Ariz.
He compared the Obama administration's "monomaniacal" belief in the structural integrity of its climate rule to the George W. Bush ... «Environment & Energy Publishing, Jul 15»
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Lakers Lost Luster
His monomaniacal drive to win always has him at the center. It is his team, he has the power, not the coach. He is hypercritical of teammates, ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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'The Strain' star Corey Stoll promises a drunker, more humorous …
... caused by the gradual infiltration of vampiric forces turning ordinary people into monomaniacal bloodsuckers bent on devouring loved ones. «HitFix, Jul 15»
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