pathological lying
pseudologia fantastica
mythomania

The most blatant lying is found in the condition called "pseudologia fantastica," in which a person concocts a stream of fictitious tales about his past, many with a small kernel of truth, all self-aggrandizing.

They present shocking but plausible clinical pictures; they have wildly dramatic histories (pseudologia fantastica, in the trade); they are eager for risky diagnostic procedures and exploratory surgeries, and they depart in high dudgeon upon discovery.

Burgess' biographers attribute the incident to the author's notorious mythomania.

A short time before he died he finished his last book, called Armenian Mythomania.

Is mythomania an evil trait, or a sickness?

The effect is relentless, with a text that culminates in revelations of lust, mortality and mythomania.

Another distinguishing characteristic of Bode was his unmatched mythomania.

In some cases, indulging in the same mythomania that gangsta rappers do.

All of them, moreover, both male and female, are very middle-class creatures who have come here, as usual, out of mythomania or stupidity.

Just how this kind of mythomania can, over history's long run, create a good society is the premise that "Print the Legend" utterly refuses to examine.

Inside the walls of the Orthogenic School, the effect of Bettelheim's mythomania was clearly destructive.

Noting that epileptics have tendencies toward mythomania and melodrama, Ms. Slater goes on to offer prodigious illustrations of both.

According to Gärdenfors, he had met Svensson during a stay in Lund, and included him in his comic as a subject of mythomania.

And Guillaume Depardieu, who plays the role of her lover, discovers her mythomania, but stays in love with her.

He is the writer of TUNE and the writer and director of the spin-off webseries, Mythomania.

Pseudologia fantastica, mythomania, compulsive lying, or pathological lying are four of several terms applied by psychiatrists to the behavior of habitual or compulsive lying.

But at the time of his most important discoveries and for the last couple of decades, Schliemann has been suspected of salting his sites with purchased or faked antiquities, of mythomania, of cheating and deceit.

He was labeled a suspicious person due to his own claims to be a spy for the Swedish government, but by then his mythomania was so widely known that nobody believed him, and he was finally sent back to Sweden.

In the latter book, for which he had a hard time to publish it and did not manage to do so during his lifetime, Vinaver showed his master skills for debate and reached heights in criticizing Serbian cultural mediocrity and mythomania.

As the Elvis legend calls the faithful to his Graceland shrine in Memphis, it has called Mr. Walken to write and star in this jocular contemplation of mythomania, presented in the style of the theater of the absurd.

With "The Guardsman," also adapted from Molnar, and "Twentieth Century," by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, "The Play's the Thing" is one of the three funniest comedies ever written about mythomania in the theater.

Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .

One of them is that for all Enzo Ferrari's mythomania - and God knows he loves the pomp and circumstance of his legend and exploits it in his dealings with the outside world - the Ingegnere knows his stuff and can be perfectly straight when he wants to.

Bueno, however, eventually downplayed what he saw as his mythomania by comparing him to the eminent filmmaker Mário Peixoto - who had put in circulation a bogus complimentary article on his work by Eisenstein - as well as acknowledging Tolentino's talent as a satirical poet.