MEGALOMANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does megalomania mean? 

• MEGALOMANIA (noun)
  The noun MEGALOMANIA has 1 sense:

1. a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

  Familiarity information: MEGALOMANIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGALOMANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("megalomania" is a kind of...):

mental disease; mental illness; psychopathy (any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention)

Meronyms (parts of "megalomania"):

delusions of grandeur (a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are)

Derivation:

megalomaniacal; megalomanic (suffering from megalomania)