suuruudenhulluus
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]suuruuden + hulluus or suuruudenhullu + -uus
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsuːruːdenˌhulːuːs/, [ˈs̠uːruːde̞nˌhulːuːs̠]
- Rhymes: -ulːuːs
- Hyphenation(key): suu‧ruuden‧hulluus
Noun
[edit]suuruudenhulluus
- delusion of grandeur, megalomania (the false belief that one is important or powerful or something is important; the act of constructing or planning to construct something concrete or abstract that is unrealistically big)
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- (delusion of grandeur, megalomania): megalomania
Further reading
[edit]- “suuruudenhulluus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03