different between monomania vs dementia

English

Etymology

Either:

• Formed in English as mono- +? mania;
• From the French monomanie; or,
• From the Modern Latin monomania.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n???me?n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?no??me?ni.?/
• Rhymes: -e?ni?

Noun

monomania (plural monomanias or monomaniæ)

1. Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.

   It was apparent to all but himself that what was once idle curiosity had become a monomania.

2. A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.

Quotations

• 1905 — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

  "There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania," I answered. "There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idee fixe,' which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an 'idee fixe' and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage."

Related terms

• monomaniac

Translations

See also

• idee fixe
• obsession

Finnish

Etymology

mono- +? -mania

Noun

monomania

1. monomania

Declension

Anagrams

• monomaani

Italian

Etymology

From mono- +? -mania.

Noun

monomania f (plural monomanie)

1. monomania

Related terms

• monomane

Anagrams

• annoiammo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m?n??/

Noun

dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias)

1. (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
2. Madness or insanity.

Derived terms

• demented
• demential
• senile dementia

Translations

See also

• amentia
• Alzheimer's disease
• delirium

Anagrams

• Demetian, Mendaite, Mendieta, Tiedeman, matineed

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

Noun

dementia

1. dementia

Declension

Latin

Etymology

dement- +? -ia

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /de??men.ti.a/, [d?e??m?n?t?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de?men.t?si.a/, [d???m?nt??s?i?]

Noun

d?mentia f (genitive d?mentiae); first declension

1. madness, insanity

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Adjective

d?mentia

1. nominative neuter plural of d?m?ns
2. accusative neuter plural of d?m?ns
3. vocative neuter plural of d?m?ns

References

• dementia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dementia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dementia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• dementia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dementia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin