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Monomania vs Insanity - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between monomania and insanity

is that monomania is excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject while insanity is the state of being insane; madness.

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 ----

    insanity

    English

    (wikipedia insanity)

    Noun

  • The state of being insane; madness.

    • Antonyms

    * sanity

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * insane