pseudomania

pseudomania
1. A factitious mental disorder. 2. A mental disorder in which the patient falsely claims to have committed a crime. 3. Generally, the morbid impulse to falsify or lie, as in pseudologia.

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pseu·do·ma·nia (soo″do-maґne-ə) [pseudo- + -mania] 1. false or pretended mental disorder. 2. a mental disorder in which the patient admits to crimes actually not committed.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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