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/dɪlˈuʒənz əv grændˈur/ Listen

Delusions of grandeur

noun

A delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are.

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... to brim with the cheerfullest promise; yet something told me that Little Sure Shot was too good, too perfect. Something warned me that he suffered delusions of grandeur—that he fell, in fact, somewhat short of being the real doughnuts, either of a Peruvian or any ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... autopsychic. A genetic hint from general paresis (frontal site of lesions in cases with autopsychic trend.) Mental symptomatology of general paresis. Work on fifth-decade psychoses. Statistical summary. Group with pleasant (or not unpleasant) delusions. Three cases of senile dementia, delusions of grandeur, and frontal lobe changes. Three cases with religious delusions. Remainder of pleasant-delusion group. Group with ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

Words linked to "Delusions of grandeur" : delusion, psychotic belief, megalomania