monomania
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- characteristic
- obsessive preoccupation
- description
- A severe and deeply contracted form of obsession or madness that seized Ahab, intensifying his resolve towards a singular, all-engrossing objective.
- effect
- intensified delirium
- example_person
- Ahab
- nature_1
- final
- nature_2
- deepeningly contracted
Relationships
- referenced_byAhab
- context
- exhibits
- source
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- source_text
- yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings. “Swim away from me, do ye?” murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:11.750Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- compared_toHudson
- description
- Ahab's deepeningly contracted lunacy is compared to the unabated Hudson river flowing narrowly but unfathomably through a gorge.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:19.435Z
- source
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