mythomania

English

Etymology

mytho- +‎ -mania

Noun

mythomania (countable and uncountable, plural mythomanias)

1. A compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth.

Derived terms

• mythomaniac
• mythomaniacal

Translations

compulsion to tell lies

• Asturian: mitomanía f
• Catalan: mitomania (ca) f
• Esperanto: mitomanio
• French: mythomanie (fr) f
• Galician: mitomanía f
• Greek: μυθομανία (el) f (mythomanía)
• Italian: mitomania (it) f
• Occitan: mitomania f
• Polish: mitomania (pl) f
• Portuguese: mitomania f
• Romanian: mitomanie (ro) f
• Russian: псевдоло́гия (ru) (psevdológija), мифомани́я (ru) f (mifomaníja)
• Sicilian: mitumanìa f
• Spanish: mitomanía (es) f
• Swedish: mytomani c
• Turkish: mitomani