"mythomania" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌmɪ.θəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mythomania.wav Forms: mythomanias [plural]
Etymology: From mytho- + -mania. Compare French mythomanie f. Etymology templates: {{af|en|mytho-|-mania}} mytho- + -mania, {{cog|fr|mythomanie|g=f}} French mythomanie f Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mythomania (countable and uncountable, plural mythomanias)
  1. A compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: mythomaniac, mythomaniacal Translations (compulsion to tell lies): mitomanía [feminine] (Asturian), mitomania [feminine] (Catalan), mitomanio (Esperanto), mythomanie [feminine] (French), mitomanía [feminine] (Galician), μυθομανία (mythomanía) [feminine] (Greek), mitomania [feminine] (Italian), 虚言癖 (kyogenheki) (alt: きょげんへき) (Japanese), mitomania [feminine] (Occitan), mitomania [feminine] (Polish), mitomania [feminine] (Portuguese), mitomanie [feminine] (Romanian), псевдоло́гия (psevdológija) (Russian), мифомани́я (mifomaníja) [feminine] (Russian), mitumanìa [feminine] (Sicilian), mitomanía [feminine] (Spanish), mytomani [common-gender] (Swedish), mitomani (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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