| 单词 | monomania |
| 释义 | monomania|mɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪə|
[a. mod.L. monomania, f. Gr. µόνο-ς mono- + µανία mania; after F. monomanie (Esquirol).]
A form of insanity in which the patient is irrational on one subject only.
1823Quart. Jrnl. For. & Brit. Med. V. 311 [M. Esquirol's Account of Colony of Maniacs, at Gheel, near Brussels]. Monomania is sometimes successfully treated with neutral salts in aqua graminis. 1833Prichard in Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 833 The term monomania, meaning madness affecting one train of thought..has generally been adopted of late times instead of melancholia. 1877L. O. Pike in Encycl. Brit. VI. 584/2 Kleptomania and homicidal monomania are asserted by medical theorists to be forms of mental aberration. 1883T. S. Clouston Clin. Lect. Mental Dis. 17 The fixed delusional states without excitement or depression come next, the Monomanias.
b. transf. in popular use: An exaggerated enthusiasm for or devotion to one subject: a craze (for).
1834Edin. Rev. LIX. 43 The epidemic monomania which infected the world so largely during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. xvi, I call it quite my monomania, it is such a subject of mine. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. iii. (1875) 72 A virtuous youth whose monomania was shooting. 1866M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile xxxiii, That sort of thing is a monomania with very rich people. |
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