mythomane
English
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪθəˌmeɪn/, /ˈmɪθəʊˌmeɪn/
Noun
    
mythomane (plural mythomanes)
- Someone who suffers from mythomania.
- 2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384:- 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.
 
 
Synonyms
    
References
    
-  “mythomane, n. and adj.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /mi.tɔ.man/
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Related terms
    
Descendants
    
- → Italian: mitomane
- → Greek: μυθομανής (mythomanís)
Further reading
    
- “mythomane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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