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theomania

[ thee-oh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh ]

noun

  1. a delusional mental illness in which a person believes that they are to be God or specially chosen by God, as to found a religious order.


theomania

/ ˌθɪəˈɪɪə /

noun

  1. religious madness, esp when it takes the form of believing oneself to be a god
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Derived Forms

  • ˌٳˈԾˌ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٳ···Ծ· [thee-oh-, mey, -nee-ak], noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of theomania1

First recorded in 1850–55; New Latin; theo- + -mania
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Example Sentences

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Dæmonomania differs widely from the mental disease called Theomania.

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Theomania, thē-ō-mā′ni-a, n. a madman's belief that he himself is God, or that God dwells in him.—n.

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Theomā′niac, one who shows theomania.

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It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism.

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Three others were cases of "theomania" in the sense that their delusions concerned messages from God.

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