Megalomania synonyms

mĕg'ə-lō-mā'nē-ə, -mān'yə

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lust for power
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egotism (related)
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obsession (related)
An unhealthy fixation.
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compulsion
The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
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mental-disorder
The definition of a mental disorder is a problem in the mind that affects the personality, emotions and thought process.
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instability
(Physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
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insanity (related)
Extreme foolishness or irrationality:
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childishness (related)
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misanthropy (related)
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neurosis (related)
(Psychiatry) Any of various mental disorders in which there is a symptom or group of symptoms that causes psychological pain or discomfort and may be very disabling: common neuroses include anxiety, compulsions, phobias, and depression
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self-delusion (related)
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fatalism (related)
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self-loathing (related)
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Megalomania Sentence Examples

  • Each day revealing new signs that lead them (and the viewer) to become more enmeshed in a growing megalomania.

  • Then, too, there are frequent glints of what one might call exceptionalism - or low-level megalomania.

  • 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.

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