What is a megalomaniac?

Question

taken from the incubus song-- megalomaniac

Answer 1

Someone who thinks they are the greatest ever...almost like thinking you were God.

Answer 2

A person obsessed with greed and/or power

Think Hitler, Osama Bin Laden....etc

Answer 3

A megalomaniac is a psychopath with delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. Someone on a major, out of control, ego trip.

Answer 4

Basically it is someone who is not neccessarily greedy, but is obsessed with obtaining great fame, wealth, or power. Heres the official definition from Wikipedia below, but i found it a bit confusing to read to this is just a little summarization. Hope this helps!

Megalomania (from the Greek word μεγαλομανία) is a historical term for behavior characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, genius, or omnipotence - often generally termed as delusions of grandeur. The word is a collaboration of the word "mania" meaning madness and the Greek "megalo" meaning "very large", "great", or "exaggerated", thus combining to denote an obsession with, either in the form of irrational perceived need for or preoccupation with in one's own estimation having and/or obtaining, grandiosity and extravagance (especially in the form of great fame and popularity, material wealth, social influence or political power, or more than one or even all of the aforesaid) and accompanying complete desirous and bombastic abandon; a common symptom if not the key diagnostic feature of megalomania.