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Monomania vs Alienation - What's the difference?

monomania | alienation | Synonyms |

Monomania is a synonym of alienation.


As nouns the difference between monomania and alienation

is that monomania is excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject while alienation is alienation.

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 ----

    alienation

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of alienating.
    • The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=James D. Richardson, title=A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That the mode of alienating their lands, the main source of discontent and war, should be so defined and regulated as to obviate imposition and as far as may be practicable controversy concerning the reality and extent of the alienations which are made.}}
  • The state of being alienated.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Edward Bannerman Ramsay, title=Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion.}}
  • Emotional isolation or dissociation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1797, author=An English Lady, title=A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, chapter=, edition=2nd ed. citation
    • , passage=But these domestic alienations are not confined to those who once moved in the higher orders of society--the monthly registers announce almost as many divorces as marriages, and the facility of separation has rendered the one little more than a licentious compact, which the other is considered as a means of dissolving.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1992, date=October 2, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=The Road to Overload, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=To watch it even once is to be distracted, but in an evocative and resonant manner--to be drawn away from Benning's travels and alienations and reminded of one's own.}}

    Synonyms

    * estrangement