mythomane
English
Etymology
From French mythomane.
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, p.384. London: Macmillan.
- 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, p.384. London: Macmillan.
Synonyms
- mythomaniac
French
Etymology
mytho- + -mane
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.tɔ.man/
Audio (file)
Noun
mythomane m or f by sense (plural mythomanes)
- mythomaniac
- liar, fabulist
Related terms
- mythomanie
Descendants
- → Italian: mitomane
- → Greek: μυθομανής (mythomanís)
Further reading
- “mythomane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.