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Definition of Megalomaniacal
1. Adjective. Suffering from megalomania.
Similar to: Neurotic, Psychoneurotic
Derivative terms: Megalomania, Megalomaniac, Megalomania
Definition of Megalomaniacal
1. Adjective. of, exhibiting, or affected with megalomania ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Megalomaniacal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megalomaniacal
Literary usage of Megalomaniacal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"Here they appear at first logically formed by the meditation of the patient (see
paranoia). Transient and changing megalomaniacal ideas also appear in ..."
2. Transactions (1907)
"It is claimed by Kraeplin that less than a quarter of the cases of paresis are
of the megalomaniacal or expansive form ; that two-fifths are of the ..."
3. Private Lives of Kaiser William II, and His Consort: Secret History of the by Henry William Fischer (1909)
"... the megalomaniacal Sultan of India, was pleased to kill his brother and exalt
his mother, so it was William's bon plaisir to give a lift to Prince ..."
4. Manual of Psychiatry by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff (1916)
"(c) megalomaniacal variety. — The ideas of grandeur may either be primary or they
may follow a very brief period of ideas of persecution. ..."
5. Italy and the World War by Thomas Nelson Page (1920)
"He declared that it was not a question of a lot of conquests or of megalomaniacal
ambitions, but of the most sensitive idealism ..."
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