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monomania

n.

1. extreme enthusiasm or zeal for a single subject or idea, often manifested as a rigid, irrational idea. See also idée fixe.

2. an obsolete name for a pattern of abnormal behavior with reference to a single subject in an otherwise apparently normally functioning individual. —monomaniac n.

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