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Megalomania   /mˌɛgəloʊmˈeɪniə/   Listen
Megalomania

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



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"Megalomania" Quotes from Famous Books



... was rather the gnawing uneasiness of sanity than any mental disturbance. But I find it hard either to judge him or convey the full development of him to the reader. I saw too much of him; my memory is choked with disarranged moods and aspects. Now he is distended with megalomania, now he is deflated, now he is quarrelsome, now impenetrably self-satisfied, but always he is sudden, jerky, fragmentary, energetic, and—in some subtle fundamental way that ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells


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


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