Conceit and then some

Usage examples of egomania.

Of the second of these, his grotesque egomania, I will speak in a moment.

It took something like this to make me realize my egomania, my selfish drives, my all-consuming love affair with myself.

He derived no joy from it, but he saw the potential for terrible abuse in the position and felt that any of his logical successors would be a disaster—his opinion, of course, which has to be balanced against the egomania necessary to get to be Lord in the first place.

Knowing Tzonov's psychological problem - his egocentricity, the fact that it bordered on egomania - Siggi was also aware of the paradox: that he was jealous and possessive beyond all reasonable bounds.

Considering how Yulin created this race and his own egomania, the men would in fact be powerful sex machines but they should also be at least Yulin's intellectual equal, and he was, for all his amorality and ambition, certainly close to genius.

It's the reverse of what the Freudians call the inferiority complex, a form of egomania, a variety of folie de grandeur.