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Delirium vs Monomania - What's the difference?

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Delirium is a related term of monomania.


As nouns the difference between delirium and monomania

is that delirium is delirium (delirium) while monomania is excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.

delirium

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
  • * Motley
    • the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)

    Related terms

    * deliracy * delirament * delirancy * delirant * delirate * delirating * deliration * delire * deliring * delirement * deliriant * deliriate * delirifacient * delirious * deliriously * deliriousness * delirium tremens * delirous * delirousness * deliry

    See also

    * (wikipedia "delirium")

    References

    * “ delirium]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----

    monomania

    English

    Noun

  • Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
    • It was apparent to all but himself that what was once idle curiosity had become a monomania.
  • A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.

    • Quotations

    * 1905 — *: "There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania ," I answered. "There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idee fixe,' which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an 'idee fixe' and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage."

    Related terms

    * monomaniac

    See also

    * idee fixe * obsession English words suffixed with -mania ----