egomania

American  

[ee-goh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh, eg-oh-] / ˌi goʊˈmeɪ ni ə, -ˈmeɪn yə, ˌɛg oʊ- /

noun

1. psychologically abnormal egotism.

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egomania British  

/ ˌiːɡəʊməˈnaɪɪkəl, ˌɛɡ-, ˌɛɡ-, ˌiːɡəʊˈmeɪnɪə /

noun

1. obsessive love for oneself and regard for one's own needs

2. any action dictated by this point of view

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egomania Cultural  

1. An extreme egotism.

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Other Word Forms

• egomaniac noun
• egomaniacal adjective

Etymology

Origin of egomania

First recorded in 1815–25; ego + -mania; modeled on monomania

Example Sentences

But what kept Marnie from being completely insufferable is that, for all of her bouts of egomania, she was still self-aware enough to know when she was being obnoxious.

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Maybe it wasn’t the egomania that fueled Kilmer's reputation, but his fervent desire to make everything he did undeniably interesting, sometimes at the expense of the films around him.

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Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.

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Glinda is confident and fashionable and hilariously blind to her egomania.

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Perhaps the worst outcome is when a person faces their own mortality and sees their luck as a mark of their greatness if not immortality, fueling their egomania and the worst aspects of their personality.

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