Meanings
plural mythomanes
- Someone who suffers from mythomania.
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.
2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384Synonyms: mythomania, mythomaniac
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone who suffers from mythomania.
Origin
- Ancient Greekμῦθος (mûthos)
- Frenchmytho-
- Proto-Indo-European*men-
- Proto-Indo-European*mn̥yétor
- Proto-Hellenic*məňňómai
- Ancient Greekμαίνομαι (maínomai)
- Ancient Greekμανία (manía)
- Frenchmythomane
- Englishmythomane
Borrowed from French mythomane. By surface analysis, mytho- + -mane.
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mythomane. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythomane
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