mythomaniac
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prettygoodwordmythomaniac (mith-uh-MAY-nee-ak) - n., someone with an excessive or pathological propensity for lying and exaggerating.
The compulsion itself being mythomania. Created from mythomania, which was coined in 1905 in French in by psychiatrist Ernest Dupré as mythomanie, from Ancient Greek mythos, which meant saying/speech as well as myth but that last is the relevant one here + Latin mania, craze/madness (itself also from Ancient Greek manía, madness/compulsion).
And that's it for a week of fun long words -- and although the first one up for next week is also a fun long one, it really just happened to be next on the list, really. Uh huh. Totally.
---L.
The compulsion itself being mythomania. Created from mythomania, which was coined in 1905 in French in by psychiatrist Ernest Dupré as mythomanie, from Ancient Greek mythos, which meant saying/speech as well as myth but that last is the relevant one here + Latin mania, craze/madness (itself also from Ancient Greek manía, madness/compulsion).
And that's it for a week of fun long words -- and although the first one up for next week is also a fun long one, it really just happened to be next on the list, really. Uh huh. Totally.
---L.
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Date: 2026-02-21 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-21 01:40 am (UTC)Those with a mania, I can believe. I don’t know whether actual compulsive liars like self-identifying.
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Date: 2026-02-21 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-21 04:52 am (UTC):whistles innocently: