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Oct. 15, 2014
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\MITH-uh-meyn\
noun
1. a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.
Quotes
"Having lived with a mythomane," she wrote, "I know they believe everything they say; they are not conscious liars, they invent to increase everything about themselves and their lives and believe it."
-- Nicholas Shakespeare, “A Life Less Ordinary,” Granta, 1998,
Origin
Mythomane emerged in the 1950s and may be a back formation of mythomania meaning "lying to an abnormal degree."
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