Definitions
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- n. Someone who suffers from mythomania.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is subject to mythomania; a chronic liar.
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Examples
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Research in Soviet archives led Antony Beevor to call Andre Malraux a "mythomaniac".
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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.
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Of course, they admit, he has also been fingered as a mythomaniac trickster.
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review
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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.
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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.
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‘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
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It is hard to be sure because almost all the evidence comes from Alma herself, and she was an auto-mythomaniac.
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Not even the mythomaniac Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel could have anticipated how her legacy would persist triumphantly into the next millennium.
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L Ron Hubbard was a mythomaniac, a liar and a deeply dishonest person.
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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.
mollusque commented on the word mythomaniac
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
October 1, 2008