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monomaniacal

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mon·o·ma·ni·a  (mn-mn-, -mny)
n.
1. Pathological obsession with one idea or subject.
2. Intent concentration on or exaggerated enthusiasm for a single subject or idea.

mono·mani·ac (-mn-k) n.
mono·ma·nia·cal (-m-n-kl) adj.
mono·ma·nia·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.monomaniacal - obsessed with a single subject or idea
psychoneurotic, neurotic - affected with emotional disorder

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It is probable that both these representations were of ex post facto origin; the young gentleman (whose expressive name was Sparkler) being monomaniacal in offering marriage to all manner of undesirable young ladies, and in remarking of every successive young lady to whom he tendered a matrimonial proposal that she was
 
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