monoideism · noun — the domination of a single idea, as in certain mental disorders. It carries an Arena rating of 1436, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, monoideism ranks #281 of 17,176 for Most Incisive Words, #1,513 of 17,130 for Most Ponderous Words, #4,017 of 17,163 for Most Sublime Words, #4,444 of 17,205 for The Improbable.
Why “monoideism” is a great word
The pathological domination of the mind by a single, fixed idea. Formed within English from the combining form mono- ("single"), the noun idea, and the suffix -ism (denoting a state or doctrine). Unlike obsession, a persistent preoccupation that still permits the flicker of competing thoughts, or hypnosis, a trance-like state of suggestibility, monoideism is a totalitarian occupation of consciousness—a conscious, waking siege that blots out all periphery. It is the inmate tracing the same crack in the wall for years, the bereaved who cannot taste food because every sensation routes back to absence, the scholar whose life’s work is a footnote to a single forgotten proof—the terrible democracy of the mind collapsed into one endless, unvoted referendum.
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Etymology
From mono- + idea + -ism.
noun
- The domination of a single idea, as in certain mental disorders.
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