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Megalomania   /mˌɛgəloʊmˈeɪniə/   Listen
Megalomania

noun
1.
A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur.



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megalomaniacal


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"Megalomania" Quotes from Famous Books



... editor of the paper. He served various terms of imprisonment for the paper, and for a further payment of five kroner a week he also worked out in prison the fines inflicted on the paper. When he was not in jail he kept himself alive by drinking. He suffered from megalomania, and considered that he led the whole labor movement; for which reason he ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... that of the neurotic, not the primitive. It is megalomania and egotism and the pride of the man in the Bible that waxed fat and kicked. But the results are the same. She wants to destroy and simplify; but it isn't the simplicity of the ascetic, which is of the spirit, but the simplicity ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan


Words linked to "Megalomania" :   mental illness, delusions of grandeur, psychopathy, megalomaniacal, megalomanic, mental disease


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