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micromania

noun

Etymology

From micro- + -mania.

  1. derived from μικρός
  2. suffixed as micromania — “micro + mania”

Definitions

  1. Excessive enthusiasm for microcomputers.

    • Micromania at home: What have microcomputers got that other instructional technologies haven't?
    • Micromania, the uncontrolled spread of personal computers in corporations, can be treated […]

  2. A delusion that a body part has become small.

  3. An extreme tendency to belittle oneself or trivialize one's achievements.

    • Actually, when the I-God is universalized, as it is in my book, the whole God concept becomes one of humbleness, weakness, and inferiority, a micromania rather than a megalomania.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for micromania. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA