megalomania

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But honestly, I don't think that megalomania is the issue*.

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

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  • Because I'm not a psychotic, with megalomania or anything else! —  Analog February, 1971
  • And then, inexorably the dominie would approach his Emeritus status: he would become less precise, more emotional; egocentricity would begin to triumph over the essential social accommodations; there would be outbursts of petulance, wrath, and a final megalomania--and then the Emeritus would disappear Beran, shy and lacking fluency, at first held aloof from the discussions. —  Languages of Pao The
  • Saddam Hussein's Baghdad was a testament to his megalomania, a strange sprawl with a disfigured sense of grandeur. —  Iraq Updates - Latest News
  • Here Hansen swerves from scientific authoritarianism to megalomania: —  Energy Tribune
  • "Adolf Hitler" is a name that is synonymous with megalomania, fascism, and genocide. —  Think Progress
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek μέγας (μεγαλ-), great, + μανία, madness: see mania.
 

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/ˈmɛgələmeɪniə/
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