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Lunacy vs Monomania - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between lunacy and monomania

is that lunacy is the state of being mad, insanity while monomania is excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.

lunacy

English

Noun

  • (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
  • # a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
  • # insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
  • Something deeply misguided.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being mad) insanity

    Derived terms

    * lunatic

    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."

    See also

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