sciamachy

Sciamachy is a fight with imaginary attackers.

(noun)

An example of sciamachy is a bipolar person having a psychotic episode and imagines they are being ambushed.

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See sciamachy in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. sciamachies

a fighting with shadows or imaginary enemies

Origin: Gr skiamachia < skia, shadow (see shine) + machein, to fight (see -machy)

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