詞根：MANIA
MANIA in Latin means 「madness,」 and the meaning passed over into English unchanged. Our word mania can mean a mental illness, or at least an excessive enthusiasm. We might call someone a maniac who was wild, violent, and mentally ill—or maybe just really enthusiastic about something. Too much caffeine might make you a bit manic. But the intense mood swings once known as manic-depressive illness are now usually called bipolar disorder instead.
maniac n. 瘋子，躁狂者
manic adj. 躁狂的
bipolar disorder 躁鬱症
詞彙
kleptomania n. 偷竊狂；偷竊癖
dipsomaniac n. 嗜酒狂；間發性酒狂
megalomaniac n.誇大狂患者；妄自尊大的人
egomaniac /ˌɛɡo'menjæk/
egomaniac /ˌɛɡo'menjæk/
基本釋義
n. 極端利己主義者,極端自我主義者,自大狂
Someone who is extremely self-centered and ignores the problems and concerns of others.
ego 「I」自我
egoism [ego我+ -ism (n.)]
n.自我主義,利己主義
egoist [見上，-ist(n,) 表示人]
n.自我主義者,利己主義者
egoistical [見上, -ical 形容詞後綴]
adj.利己的,利己主義的,自私自利的
egomania [見上，mania迷,狂]
n.極端利己主義
• He's a completely unimpressive person, but that doesn't keep him from being an egomaniac.
他毫不起眼，但這並不妨礙他是一個自大狂。
Ego is Latin for 「I,」 and in English ego usually means 「sense of self-worth.」 Most people's egos stay at a healthy level, but some become exaggerated. Egomaniacs may display a grandiose sense of self-importance, with fantasies about their own brilliance or beauty, intense envy of others, a lack of sympathy, and a need to be adored or feared. But, like megalomaniac, the word egomaniac is thrown around by lots of people who don't mean much more by it than blowhard or know-it-all.
grandiose adj. 宏偉的；浮誇的；宏大的；堂皇的
blowhard n. <美,非正>吹牛大王;自吹自擂的人
know-it-all n. <口>假裝或自稱無所不知的人
An egomaniac is a person who's obsessively self-absorbed. An egomaniac might only take photos of himself — never of another person.
Just because you like to take selfies doesn't make you an egomaniac — a true egomaniac has a psychological disorder that makes him believe that he is the greatest, most important person in the world. You can also use the word to describe someone you know who's a self-centered jerk, though. Egomaniac, coined in the early 19th century, combines ego, "the self," or in Latin, I, and maniac, from the Greek mania, "madness or frenzy."
take selfies 自拍
self-centered jerk 以自我為中心的混蛋
coin v. 創造(新詞語)
外刊原句
I do understand that you are an egomaniac and all that matters to you is you, so I am asking this question seriously, and it is of course about you and you alone.
——Washington Post Apr 13, 2020