Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as megalomania.
  • noun The persistent delusion that surrounding objects, including one's own body, are larger than they really are.

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  • noun medicine A mania characterized by the delusion that objects are larger than they really are; or that one's own body or body parts are much larger than they are.

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  • Delusion in which things seem larger than natural size.

    May 13, 2008

  • JM casts his eyes over the crowd and realises that macromania is a fallacy

    March 25, 2009