micromanian.
/mʌɪkrə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌmaɪkroʊˈmeɪniə/ Chiefly Medicine and Psychiatry. Now rare.
The delusion that the body or part of it has become abnormally small. Also: a persistent or exaggerated tendency to belittle oneself or regard oneself as unimportant (cf. megalomania n.).
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1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Micromania, a form of mania in which the patient thinks himself, or some part of him, to be reduced in size.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 703 Micromania is a name used in contrast to megalomania and to indicate what Dr. Mickle calls ‘belittlement’.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 703 Micromania is met with..in senile degeneration or mental degeneration of one kind or another.
1902 Speaker 8 Nov. 142/2 The cult of humility is a wholly spurious micromania.
1953 L. E. Hinsie & J. Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 2) 347/1 In psychoanalysis the ‘small penis’ complex is an example of what was formerly known as micromania.
1985 J. Merrill Late Settings ii. 34 The lip to be explored..with a sense verging on micromania.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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