sofomania
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9 characters
Language
Portuguese
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sofomania is aPortuguesenoun. It means: transtorno de personalidade no qual o indivíduo acredita saber mais que todos os outros ou ser incrivelmente inteligente, mesmo não tendo estudo ou conhecimento sobre algum assunto que aborda, dist... Pronounced /so.fo.maˈni.ɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sofomania |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /so.fo.maˈni.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for sofomania is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /so.fo.maˈni.ɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sofomania in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is sofomania, spelled S-O-F-O-M-A-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1transtorno de personalidade no qual o indivíduo acredita saber mais que todos os outros ou ser incrivelmente inteligente, mesmo não tendo estudo ou conhecimento sobre algum assunto que aborda, distúrbio em geral motivado por baixa autoestima e insegurança, diferindo do efeito Dunning-Krueger por neste a pessoa possuir uma certa base de conhecimento, que superestima
- 2costume de se passar por saber aquilo que não conhece ou de saber mais que os outros; que presume ter sabedoria
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