pseudologue

pseudologue

Unlike a delusional psychotic person, the pseudologue will abandon the story or change it if confronted with contradictory evidence or sufficient disbelief.


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  • pseudologue — pseu·do·logue …   English syllables

  • pseudologue — ˈsüdəlˌȯg also ˌäg noun ( s) Etymology: probably from French, from Greek pseudologos : a pathological liar …   Useful english dictionary

  • Satan — Synonyms and related words: Aides, Aidoneus, Ananias, Apollyon, Baron Munchausen, Beelzebub, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Father of Lies, Hades, Hel, His Satanic Majesty, Kore, Loki, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Minos,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • false witness — Synonyms and related words: Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, falsifier, fibber, fibster, frame, frame up, habitual liar, liar, mythomaniac,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • liar — Synonyms and related words: Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar, mythomaniac, palterer,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • perjurer — Synonyms and related words: Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar, liar, mythomaniac,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • prevaricator — Synonyms and related words: Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, captious critic, caviler, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar …   Moby Thesaurus

  • storyteller — Synonyms and related words: Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, advertising writer, anecdotist, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • liar — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. prevaricator, equivocator, falsifier, fibber, deceiver. See deception, falsehood. Ant., honest person. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. prevaricator, false witness, deceiver, dissimulator, Romancer, maligner,… …   English dictionary for students

  • pseudology —   n. telling of lies.    ♦ pseudological, a. wildly exaggerated or untrue.    ♦ pseudologue,   n. mania for lying …   Dictionary of difficult words

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