Lifted from budgie's squawks:
Go look here and look up your last Birthday's word of the day - henceforth that shall be your "Word of the Year"!!
Word of the Day for Friday September 29, 2006
Go look here and look up your last Birthday's word of the day - henceforth that shall be your "Word of the Year"!!
Word of the Day for Friday September 29, 2006
monomania \mon-uh-MAY-nee-uh; -nyuh\, noun:1. Pathological obsession with a single subject or idea.
2. Excessive concentration of interest upon one particular subject or idea.
He was . . . a rather impossible person -- self-absorbed to the point of monomania (when lesser beings presumed to take part in his monologues, he would say "Quite" and then continue along his solitary path).-- Thomas M. Disch, "Later Auden", Washington Post, July 4, 1999
He was . . . a rather impossible person -- self-absorbed to the point of monomania (when lesser beings presumed to take part in his monologues, he would say "Quite" and then continue along his solitary path).-- Thomas M. Disch, "Later Auden", Washington Post, July 4, 1999
Monomania is derived from the Greek elements mono-, "one, single, alone" + mania, "madness, frenzy, enthusiasm."
Ah, even though I am bi-polar....
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