Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is subject to mythomania; a chronic liar.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who suffers from mythomania.
Examples
“Research in Soviet archives led Antony Beevor to call Andre Malraux a "mythomaniac".”
“Putting it more starkly, he was a mythomaniac, but the autobiography itself, "Each Man in His Time" 1974, is among the most entertaining books about Hollywood ever written.”
“Of course, they admit, he has also been fingered as a mythomaniac trickster.”
The Guardian: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review
“A mythomaniac, Malraux did heroes wonderfully well, and the great moment in "Man's Fate" occurs when Katov, the professional revolutionary and the novel's hero, gives his cyanide pill to a comrade terrified of being burned alive by Chiang Kai-shek's troops.”
The Wall Street Journal: To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels
“His description of the origins of the Vietnamese Communist party, for example, is wrong in almost every particular; his warm admiration for John Paul Vann, the mythomaniac American counter-insurgency officer whose career was detailed in Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer-prize winning Bright and Shining Lie (1988), is particularly perverse.”
“‘I am totally fascinated with the mythomaniac fantasia that characterizes some of the villa gardens that surround Rome, and that I first read about in Joscelyn Godwin’s great The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance.”
Erik Davis: On The Road 2: Italian Garden Magic | Disinformation
“It is hard to be sure because almost all the evidence comes from Alma herself, and she was an auto-mythomaniac.”
“Not even the mythomaniac Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel could have anticipated how her legacy would persist triumphantly into the next millennium.”
“L Ron Hubbard was a mythomaniac, a liar and a deeply dishonest person.”
“The favored explanation of most advocates of the “hoax pure and simple” theory is that Plantard was a mythomaniac who actually believed his own fantasies about being the rightful King of France.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mythomaniac’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Ends with C but not with "-ic"
bloc, roc, arc, orc, disc, sac, xebec, havoc, bivouac, sumac, maniac, insomniac and 418 more...
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open list: the art of talking
Words that describe people who are identified by a specific variety of speech. This list was inspired by the discussion at anecdotalist.
anecdotalist, conversationalist, fabulist, mythomaniac, speechifier, gaffeur, bullshit artist, preacher, witticist, raconteur, storyteller, liar and 29 more...
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apjoseph's words
insurmountable, ubiquitous, unequivocal, incumbent, asinine, amenable, sycophants, precarious, malevolent, gregarious, raison detra, nefarious and 200 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Master
comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 239 more...
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occupations
discerner, discriminator, percipient, spectator, idealogue, synthesist, semiotician, pharmacopolist, pharmacognosist, pedant, maverick, trickster and 57 more...
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Eco echo
While cleaning out some drawers today (28 September 2008), I found a list of words from Foucault's Pendulum that I'd written fifteen or twenty years ago. I'm adding some of them here, along with ot...
pendulum, isochronal, sublunar, triadic, unnumbered, unstretchable, pentaculum, agarttha, panta rei, ein-sof, chthonian, chelae and 51 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mythomaniac.
mollusque I went back to see Belbo the following afternoon, and we talked a little about our visitor. Belbo said the man had seemed a mythomaniac to him. "Did you notice how he quoted that Rakosky, or Rostropovich, as if the man were Kant?"
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 150 Sep 30, 2008