monomania
/mɒnə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing: she has an obsession with the drug that verges on monomania [count noun]: at an early age he developed a monomania about Africa...
- His obsession verges on monomania, and he becomes ‘bewitched to her memory’.
- Like most blogs, the content is erratic, syncopated by the intrusions of daily life, random interests, monomania, narcissism and booze.
- Ferguson set up his retirement, cultivated outside interests, sought to escape his monomania - sought, in fact, to get bored with the struggle.
Synonyms
obsession, fixation, idée fixe, ruling passion, consuming passion, mania, compulsion, fetish, preoccupation, hobby horse
informal bee in one's bonnet, thing
Derivatives
monomaniac
/ noun & adjective ...- So much concentration on the one issue gives floating and centrist voters the impression that the they are monomaniacs who have not changed.
- The monomaniacs in the media are at it again, focusing all their attention on a single story to the exclusion of all others.
- He is variously described as petulant, egotistical, paranoid, jealous, obsessive, a monomaniac - in short, a dangerous man to have in charge of weapons development.
monomaniacal
/ adjective ...- Time always seems to contract when I have a lengthy to-do list and expand when I'm consumed by a monomaniacal obsession.
- Braude is clear on this, but it appears that his critics in the media are almost monomaniacal in their fixation on anything involving money!
- After their commendable performance in the days immediately following the attacks, the media are falling back on their old, familiar, monomaniacal ways.