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monomania (s) (noun) (uncountable)
1. A form of insanity shown in a patient's obsessive preoccupation with only one idea or one topic: After the nightmare, June suffered from monomania in which she was totally irrational and afraid of losing her baby.
2. A psychosis marked by the limitation of mental action in a particular topic, as the delusion in paranoia: Because Susan was constantly afraid of losing her job and not able to think or act on anything else, she went to the doctor who diagnosed her as suffering from monomania.
A mental derangement about one idea.
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