| 单词 | megalomania |
| 释义 | megalomania (once / 22176 pages) n Megalomania is a crazy hunger for power and wealth, and a passion for grand schemes. Comic book villains often suffer from megalomania. Their plans are thwarted only by superheroes. Megalomania comes from the Greek megas ("great") and mania ("madness"). It is a madness of greatness, but not a great kind of madness! Megalomaniacs in history: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Josef Stalin, and maybe even the tycoon Donald Trump. WORD FAMILYmegalomania: megalomaniac+/megalomaniac: megalomaniacal, megalomaniacs/megalomaniacal: megalomaniacally/megalomanic: megalomania USAGE EXAMPLESIt has been compared to Kaiser Wilhelm’s megalomania, but it’s fair to say it gives the pharaohs a run for their money. The Guardian(Nov 04, 2016) He pulls people close to him who reinforce his anger, his prejudice, his megalomania, his conspiracy-mindedness. Washington Post(Oct 31, 2016) As the four Kong brothers and their equally ambitious wives and concubines steer Explosion from obscure mountain village to seething mega-city, pride swells into megalomania. Economist(Oct 13, 2016) n a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur Hyper 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 |
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