Megalomania is an obsession with power and wealth, and a passion for grand schemes.
Megalomania or megalomaniac may also refer to:
Psychology
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Narcissistic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, a diminished ability or unwillingness to empathize with other ...
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Grandiose delusions
Grandiose delusions (GD), also known as delusions of grandeur or expansive delusions, are a subtype of delusion that occur in patients with a wide range of psychiatric diseases, including two-thirds of patients in manic state of bipolar disord ...
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Omnipotence (psychoanalysis)
Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited wikt:power, power. Monotheism, Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence only to the deity of their faith. In the monotheistic religious philosophy of Abrahamic religions, omnipotence i ...
, a stage of child development
Albums
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''Megalomania'' (Aqua album), 2011
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Mania velichia'' or ''Megalomania'', a 1985 album by Aria
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''Megalomania'' (Enslavement of Beauty album), 2001
* ''Megalomania'', a 2014 album by
Kissin' Dynamite
Kissin' Dynamite is a German heavy metal band from Burladingen and Münsingen.
History
Kissin' Dynamite started as a school band. Since 2007, the band has worked with the Flensburg production team Elephant Music. At the end of 2007, they sta ...
Songs
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"Megalomaniac" (Incubus song), 2004
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"Megalomaniac" (KMFDM song), 1997
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"Megalomania" (Muse song), a 2001 song by Muse from ''Origin of Symmetry''
* "Megalomania", a 1975 song by Black Sabbath from ''
Sabotage
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a ''saboteur''. Saboteurs typically try to conceal their identitie ...
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* "Megalomania", a 1983 song by the Blood from ''
False Gestures for a Devious Public''
* "Megalomania", a 1992 song by Pele from ''
Fireworks
Fireworks are a class of Explosive, low explosive Pyrotechnics, pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. They are most commonly used in fireworks displays (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics), combining a l ...
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* "Megalomania", a 1991 song by Therion from ''
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Other
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Mega-Lo-Mania
''Mega-Lo-Mania'' is a real-time strategy video game developed by Sensible Software. It was released for the Amiga in 1991 and ported to other systems. It was released as ''Tyrants: Fight Through Time'' in North America and ''Mega-Lo-Mania: Jikū ...
'', a 1991 real-time strategy game by Sensible Software
See also
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Megalovania", a 2015 song by Toby Fox used in several video games
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Delusions of grandeur (disambiguation)
Delusions of grandeur may refer to:
* Grandiose delusions
* ''Delusions of Grandeur'' (Fleming and John album)
* ''Delusions of Grandeur'' (novel)
* ''Delusions of Grandeur'' (Circle II Circle album), 2008
* ''Delusions of Grandeur'' (film), a ...
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