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• n  a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

• In close collaboration with his confidant and architect of choice, Albert Speer, Hitler sought to cast his megalomania in concrete by radically reshaping the city's center.
• The Wall Street Journal even ran a piece (in 1998, ahem) about the pitchman's skills at addressing crowds with "just a whiff of cheerful megalomania.
• But there was method to the megalomania.

News & Articles

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• Rory McIlroy - ‘I am on course to be the best in the world’
  Early onset megalomania or sober assessment of his own talent? Irish golf wunderkind Rory McIlroy is fast on his was to becoming world number one - or so he says himself.
  June 29, 2013 - Irish Central

Quotes

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• Ehud Olmert in Boston Globe (registration)
  On Iran, Olmert said Israel would act within the international system, adding, "Part of our megalomania and our loss of proportions is the things that are said here about Iran. We are a country that has lost a sense of proportion about itself."
• Leonard Cohen in guardian.co.uk
  I was flipped out at the time,Cohen said later, "and he certainly was flipped out. For me, the expression was withdrawal and melancholy, and for him, megalomania and insanity and a devotion to armaments that was really intolerable. In the...
• Bono in Irish Times
  The thing about U2 that nobody seems to get,says Bono, "is that the very things people think about us, which is the megalomania and the immodesty, they're so far from the truth. People don't see that. We had will.i.am doing some work on...