monomaniacal

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English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ maniacal.

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Adjective

monomaniacal (comparative more monomaniacal, superlative most monomaniacal)

  1. Of or relating to a monomaniac.
    • 2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, quoting William Deresiewicz, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books, volume 32, number 02, →ISSN:
      ‘The typical Zweig story,’ the critic William Deresiewicz notes, cooling to his subject in an afterword, ‘is a tale of monomaniacal passion set loose amid the veiled, upholstered civility of the Austrian bourgeoisie, the class into which Zweig was born.’

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