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MEGALOMANIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("megalomania" is a kind of...):
mental disease; mental illness; psychopathy (any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention)
Meronyms (parts of "megalomania"):
delusions of grandeur (a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are)
Derivation:
megalomaniacal; megalomanic (suffering from megalomania)
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