monodynamic

English

Etymology

mono- +‎ dynamic

Adjective

monodynamic (not comparable)

1. Possessing only one capacity or power.
   • 1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Death of a German Great Man”, in London Magazine:

     Monodynamic men, men of a single talent, are rarely misapprehended; men of multitudinous powers, myriad-minded men, to use Coleridge's phrase, almost always.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monodynamic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)