monomaniacal

English

Etymology

mono- +‎ maniacal

Adjective

monomaniacal (comparative more monomaniacal, superlative most monomaniacal)

1. Fanatical, or obsessed with one cause or idea to the exclusion of other concerns.
   • 2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, quoting William Deresiewicz, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books‎^[1], 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.’

2. Of or relating to a monomaniac.

Translations

Translations

• Swedish: monoman (sv)