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Today's Word "megalomania"

A mania for grandiose actions 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.

"What looked before like 'walking reason' was now 'screeching megalomania'. And the flaw it implied in her was not simply a neurosis but a profound disease." -- Jeff Walker, 'The Ayn Rand Cult'

 

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


 

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