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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
  2. n. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A form of insane delusion the subjects of which imagine themselves to be very great, exalted, or powerful personages; the delusion of grandeur.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
  2. n. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Pathol.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

Etymologies

  1. First attested in 1890, from megalo- + -mania. (Wiktionary)

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