megalomania به انگلیسی

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From Longman Dictionary

meg‧a‧lo‧ma‧ni‧a /ˌmeɡələʊˈmeɪniə $ -loʊ-/ noun [uncountable]

when someone wants to have a lot of power for themselves and enjoys having control over other people’s lives, sometimes as part of a mental illness

Example

Despite their evident megalomania, no coherent vision informed them

Personally they are petty, self-indulgent and vengeful to a degree that suggests galloping megalomania

Sometimes charming, he could also be egocentric to the point of megalomania

The 1890s saw the triumph of megalomania as size took over and passengers and tracks increased in number

He, too, considers MacArthur’s megalomania