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megalomania, megalomaniac
1. An unreasonable delusionary conviction of one’s own extreme greatness, goodness, or power; the ideas in megalomania are known as delusions of grandeur and are generally considered a part of schizophrenia or other psychoses.
2. Loosely, the term is also used to describe a lopsided attachment or passion for, or for doing, things on a grand scale, or, as a tendency to wild exaggeration or conceit, with, of course, no implications of insanity.
3. A type of delusion in which the individual considers himself/herself possessed of greatness. He/She believes her/himself to be Christ, God, Napoleon, etc., or everyone and everything, including a lawyer, physician, clergyman, merchant, prince, top athlete in all divisions of sport, etc.
4. A morbid verbalized over evaluation of oneself or of some aspect of oneself.
melomania, melomaniac
An excessive interest in music.
mentulomania
An excessive interest in the penis.
mesmeromania
1. A compulsion for the application of hypnosis.
2. An insane reliance on mesmerism (hypnosis).
methomania
Periodic or intermittent drunkenness and a morbid desire for alcoholic beverages.
metromania
1. A mania for writing poetry.
2. A mania for writing poetic verses.
micromania
1. A form of mania in which the patient thinks him/herself, or some bodily part, to be reduced in size; an insane habit of belittling oneself.
2. A delusion that one's own body is of minute size.
misomania
1. Characterized by delusions of persecution (belief that everybody hates the subject).
2. In psychiatry, the syndrome characterized by delusions of persecution and hatred.
3. A form of mania in which the patient hates everyone and everything.
monomania, monomaniac
1. A form of insanity in which the patient is irrational on only one subject (one topic, one idea, etc.).
2. A psychosis marked by the limitation of the symptoms rather strictly to a certain group, as the delusion in paranoia.
musicomania
An excessive fondness for music.
musomania
A special fondness for or interest in mice.
mythomania
1. Excessive interest in myths and propensity for incredible stories and fabrications.
2. Pathological lying or exaggerating; pseudologia phantastica.
narcosomania
An insane craving for narcosis or an unconsciousness produced by a drug.
nautomania
A morbid interest in ships or large bodies of water.
necromaniac
1. Someone who has a pathological preoccupation with dead bodies or the subject of death.
2. A person with a morbid attraction to dead bodies.
3. Anyone who has a morbid tendency to long for, or to desire, death.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave":
fur-, furi-;
ira-;
lysso-;
rab-, rav-.
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