grandiosity
Example Sentences
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It was also a rebuke to the idea of grandiosity, in which inflated self-regard amounts to a distorted relationship with reality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
It is the section he highlights the most, with characteristically chilling grandiosity.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2025
Presented as compelling theater, they brought in-depth insight into our often simplistic attempts to understand the Russian mind, with its complex aspirations, fears and insecurity that can lead to greatness, grandiosity or outright malevolence.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2024
Clinically speaking, narcissistic personality disorder is "a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
From Salon • May 9, 2024
The fits of energy, tipping into rage and grandiosity, came often and more fiercely, and the sweeping undertow of grief that followed was just as strong.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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