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Mania Grandiosa

mania grandiosa

also: MANIA GRANDIOSA

A 19th-century psychiatric term (Latin, "grandiose mania") for a delusional disorder marked by inflated self-importance; Chekhov, trained as a physician, mockingly diagnoses ordinary bureaucratic pettiness and obsession as a clinical syndrome.

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