mythomane
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French mythomane;[1] equivalent to mytho- + -mane.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mythomane (plural mythomanes)
- Someone who suffers from mythomania.
- 2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384:
- Maybe because I was working on the programmes at the same time, I found myself thinking about parallels between Jimmy Savile and L. Ron Hubbard. Both were mythomanes, inventing and exaggerating to embellish their own careers and pedigrees.
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “mythomane, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mythomane m or f by sense (plural mythomanes)
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Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “mythomane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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