Etymology

folie de grandeur

Today it means: delusion of grandeur Full definition →

French folie des grandeurs
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The story

  1. French · derived fromfolie des grandeurs
  2. English todayfolie de grandeur

Borrowed from French folie des grandeurs, with the construct re-analyzed as singular.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.