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Today's Word "megalomania"

A mania for grandiose things on

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megalomania - \meg-uh-lo-MAY-nee-ah; -nyuh\ (noun) - 1 : A mania for grandiose or extravagant things or actions. 2 : A mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur.

"I'd call it incipient megalomania because he's spending far beyond sanity on self-aggrandisement." -- Dick Francis, 'Come to Grief'

 

Megalomania is Scientific Latin, from the Greek elements megal-, great + mania, madness.


 

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