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Megalomania   /mˌɛgəloʊmˈeɪniə/   Listen
Megalomania

noun
1.
A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur.



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"Megalomania" Quotes from Famous Books



... wine of power had gone to his brain, and so addled it that, as John Chamberlain tells us, there was presently a touch of craziness in him—of the variety, no doubt, known to modern psychologists as megalomania He lost the sense of proportion, and was without respect for anybody or anything. The Commons of England and the immensely dignified Court of Spain—during that disgraceful, pseudo-romantic adventure at Madrid—were alike the butts of this parvenu's unmeasured arrogance But the crowning insolence ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... in general refuted by Bacon. Paolo | Rossi ("Bacon's idea of science", in: | THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BACON, ed. | by Markku Peltonen [1996], 25-46) | gives the following comment: | | "Bacon condemned magic and alchemy on | ethical grounds. He accused them of | imposture and of megalomania. He | refuted their non-participatory | method and their intentional | unintelligibility, their attempt to | replace human sweat by a few drops of | elixir. But he borrows from the | magico-alchemical tradition the idea | that ...
— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon


Words linked to "Megalomania" :   delusions of grandeur, megalomaniacal, mental disease, mental illness, megalomanic, psychopathy


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