Usually means: Obsessive focus on one thing.
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  1. monomania: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. monomania: Merriam-Webster
  3. monomania: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. monomania: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. monomania: Collins English Dictionary
  6. monomania: Vocabulary.com
  7. monomania: Wordnik
  8. monomania: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. monomania: Wiktionary
  10. monomania: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. monomania: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. monomania: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. monomania: Dictionary.com
  14. monomania: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Monomania (Car Seat Headrest album), Monomania (Deerhunter album), Monomania (The Word Alive album), Monomania: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Monomania: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. monomania: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. monomania: Rhymezone
  19. Monomania: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. monomania: FreeDictionary.org
  21. monomania: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. monomania: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. monomania: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. monomania: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monomania: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. monomania: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. monomania: Medical dictionary

(Note: See monomaniac as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
noun:  (pathology, dated) A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.

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