Another word for megalomania

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megalomania

lust for power, compulsion, instability, mental disorder; see insanity 1, neurosis, obsession.

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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.