- Psychiatry a mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur, power, etc.
- a passion for obtaining and holding great power, authority, etc.
Origin of megalomania
ModL: see megalo- and mania
noun
- An example of megalomania is a mentally ill person who thinks they are the Queen of England.
- An example of megalomania is a mom throwing her three year old a birthday party with one hundred guests.
The definition of megalomania is a mental illness where the person believes they are very important and superior, or a tendency to do very extravagant things.
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megalomania
noun
- A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
- An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
Related Forms:
- meg′a·lo·ma′ni·ac′
noun
- meg′a·lo·ma·ni′a·cal meg′a·lo·man′ic
adjective
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Noun
(plural megalomanias)
- A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
- An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
Origin
First attested in 1890, from megalo- +"Ž -mania.
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megalomania - Medical Definition
n.
- A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
- An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
Related Forms:
- meg′a·lo·ma′ni·ac′
n.
- meg′a·lo·ma·ni′a·cal (-mə-nī′ə-kəl) meg′a·lo·man′ic (-măn′ĭk)
adj.
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Sentence Examples
- Crispis so-called megalomania gave place to retrenchment in home affairs and to a deferential attitude towards all foreign powers.
- They certainly neither require, nor are palliated by, theories of his "megalomania," of his excessive attention to conflicts of will and the like.
- He main.tained the institutions of the day, though seeking to diminish their abuse, and he perfected material details; but misfortune would have it that instead of remaining a great military administrator he flattered Louis XIV.s megalomania, and thus caused his perdition.
WORDS NEAR megalomania IN THE DICTIONARY
- megalomania
- megalomaniac
- megalomaniacal
- megalomaniacally