megalomania
/ˌmɛɡəloʊˈmeɪniə/
megalomania noun: a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
Noun
megalomania (countable and uncountable, plural megalomanias)
- A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
- As to Ernest... He is quite as nervously broken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.1936 Sept. 15, F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter to Beatrice Dance
- Synonyms:
- delusion of grandeur
- Antonyms:
- micromania
- Narcissistic personality disorder.
- An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
megalomania meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
megalomania in Tamil
- மாண்புநெறி
megalomania in Bengali
- অতিরিক্ত ক্ষমতা, গুরুত্বের উন্মাদনা
megalomania in Malayalam
- thirst for power, delusions of grandeur, folie de grandeur
- അധികാരോന്മാദം, അതിപ്രതാപഉന്മത്തരോഗം, അഹങ്കാരോന്മാദം, ഓളാങ്കം, ഡംബരം, ഡംഭം
megalomania in Kannada
- ಮಹತ್ವೋನ್ಮಾದ, ಆತ್ಮ ವೈಭವೋನ್ಮಾದ, ಮಹಾತ್ವಾಕಾಂಕ್ಷೆಯ, ಭ್ರಮೆ
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- megalomania in Indonesian
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Synonyms of megalomania
Antonyms
Forms of megalomania
| plural | megalomanias |
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Origin of megalomania
Borrowed from French mégalomanie; equivalent to megalo- + -mania.
Words formed from megalomania
Words that rhyme with megalomania
- Pennsylvania
- dipsomania
- Lusitania
- mania
- urania
- Aquitania
- erotomania
- graphomania
- metromania
- monomania
- Occitania
- Pittsylvania
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Romania
- Ruritania
- Spotsylvania
- Tasmania
- theomania
- tulipomania
- acrania
- Albania
- anthomania
- arithmomania
- bibliomania
- Chinamania
- crania
- egomania
- ergomania
- extemporanea
- extemporania
- Francomania
- Gallomania
- gazania
- habromania
- hagiomania
- Hellenomania
- hemicrania
- kleptomania
- laconomania
- Lithuania
- Mauretania
- musomania
- nostomania
- nymphomania
- oniomania
- orchidomania
- paramania
- phyllomania
- Pistolvania
- politicomania
- polytoxicomania
- Pomerania
- pornomania
- pyromania
- Rumania
- syphilomania
- theatromania
- timbromania
- toxicomania
- Transylvania
- trichotillomania
Questions about megalomania
- What does megalomania mean?
- Megalomania means a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
- What is megalomania in Tamil?
- Megalomania in Tamil is மாண்புநெறி. See Megalomania meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is megalomania?
- Megalomania is a noun.
- How do you pronounce megalomania?
- Megalomania is pronounced /ˌmɛɡəloʊˈmeɪniə/.
- What is the plural of megalomania?
- The plural of megalomania is megalomanias.
Words near megalomania in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: megalomania (page history and authors); megalomania (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); megalomania (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); megalomania (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); megalomania (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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