MONOMANIAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monomaniac mean? 

• MONOMANIAC (noun)
  The noun MONOMANIAC has 1 sense:

1. a person suffering from monomania

  Familiarity information: MONOMANIAC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOMANIAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering from monomania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("monomaniac" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Derivation:

monomaniacal (obsessed with a single subject or idea)

 Context examples 

This woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That won’t do, my dear Watson,” said Holmes, shaking his head, “for no amount of idée fixe would enable your interesting monomaniac to find out where these busts were situated.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)