Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is subject to mythomania; a chronic liar.
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- noun Someone who suffers from
mythomania .
Etymologies
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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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.
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
qms commented on the word mythomaniac
The pundits deploy their ungainly tact,
Unwilling to say what is plainly fact.
He doesn’t misstate
Or exaggerate:
The man is a frank mythomaniac.
October 3, 2018