Word Meanings - DELUSIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.

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• MONOMANIA
  Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement. Syn. -- Insanity; madness; alienation; aberration; derangement; mania. See
• MONOMANIAC
  A person affected by monomania.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DELUSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
• MONOMANIAC; MONOMANIACAL
  Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.
• DEMONOMANIA
  A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach