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egomania|ɛgəʊˈmeɪnɪə|
[f. Gr. ἐγώ I + µανία madness; after monomania, bibliomania, etc.]
Morbid egotism.
1825W. S. Walker Poet. Wks. (1852) Introd. 88 Would I could get rid of this egomania! 1895tr. Nordau's Degeneration 241. 1895 Times 21 Nov. 11/2 He panders either to the morbid egomania of the sitter or to the snobbism of his readers. 1901Academy 18 May 427 There is not much reasoning with nerves and temperament; and as for ‘egomania’, was she not shut up with a mirror all her life? 1924W. B. Selbie Psych. Relig. 140 Instances abound of religious individualism degenerating into egoism and producing even egomania. 1957New Yorker 26 Oct. 50/2 A profession that has more than its share of artists given to displays of egomania and other irritating forms of temperament. |