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  1. n. Plural form of delusion of grandeur.

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  1. n. a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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  • “The fact that cases of paresis with delusions were found to have their lesions in the frontal lobe, whereas non-delusional cases showed no such marked lesions, is of interest in the light of the present paper because three cases of senile psychosis were found to have delusions of grandeur and, although they are demonstrably not paretic, they also show mild frontal lobe changes supported by microscopic study.”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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  1. paranoic type schizophrenia
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  1. megalomania

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  • Tyanna Also common in optimism :-) Feb 12, 2012

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