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monomaniac

/mon-uh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh/US // ˌmɒn əˈmeɪ ni ə, -ˈmeɪn yə //UK // (ˌmɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪə) //

畸形人,疯子,单身狂,妄想症患者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
    • : an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.

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Examples

  • Each of them had his monomania; and the two monomaniac suited each other perfectly.

  • Even today tens of thousands of educated men regard him as a monomaniac concerning the abolition of slavery.

  • Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac's glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future.

  • Sleeping or waking it was the same, wherever he looked those sad eyes met his; there was no escape; he was becoming a monomaniac.

  • Of course no one not a monomaniac would so entirely ignore your side, would conceive so strange an idea.