mythomania
noun
lying or exaggerating to an abnormal degree.
mythomaniac
-
a word derived from
mythomania.
Example Sentences
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Describing himself as a mythomaniac, he admitted he had no training with the FBI, never interviewed Charles Manson and not played professional soccer for the Parisian team Red Star.
From Fox News β May 13, 2020
‘Longyarn’ Jason Craig’s shaggy celebration of storytelling as a life force, featuring a mountainous mythomaniac of a mother played by Jessica Jelliffe, suggests a marriage of Samuel Beckett and Baron Munchausen.
From New York Times β Jan. 21, 2016
Of course, they admit, he has also been fingered as a mythomaniac trickster.
From The Guardian β Apr. 10, 2011
At other times he seems more like a gee-whiz mythomaniac.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman have a fertile subject in Morrison, a reckless and unreconstructed mythomaniac who made the Doors into a band better known for their own notoriety than their reheated acid rock.
From Time Magazine Archive
