THEOMANIA

(Lat.), n. f. The(the2)-o(93)-man(ma3n)'i2-a3. From fleds, a god, and fnavCa. madne . Fr., theomanie, the.omonodelire. Ger., religioser Wahnsinn. Religious monomania, often accompanied by hallucinations of sight, hearing, and touch. The patient believes himself to be under direct and immediate divine influence or inspiration, or even to be God himself. [Ball, "Bull, med.," June 17, 1889, p. 795 (a, 18).] [s. 615]