Grandiosity
There are fewer historical pieces of evidence more indicative of the Western mind’s journey towards self-inflation than the history of the word ‘invention’.
The word ‘invention’ used to mean discovery (from the Latin verb ‘invenire’, to find), and it is only since the seventeenth century that the word has come to take on the grandiose sense of something …
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