Wahn

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See also: wahn and wähn

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German wān, from Proto-West Germanic *wāni.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vaːn/, ,
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Rhymes: -aːn
Homophones: waren (some speakers), wahren, Waren (chiefly in casual speech)

Noun

Wahn m (strong, genitive Wahnes or Wahns, plural Wahne)

illusion, delusion, (vain) hope (leerer/eitler Wahn), false idea, false perception, incorrect image
(psychiatry) mania, craze, false interpretation of reality

Declension

Declension of Wahn

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Wahn	die	Wahne
genitive	eines	des	Wahnes, Wahns	der	Wahne
dative	einem	dem	Wahn, Wahne¹	den	Wahnen
accusative	einen	den	Wahn	die	Wahne

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

wahnhaft

Related terms

Wahneinfall, Wahnidee, Wahnsinn, Wahnvorstellung
Geisteswahn, Genderwahn, Größenwahn, Hexenwahn, Jugendwahn, Kontrollwahn, Liebeswahn, Männlichkeitswahn, Ordnungswahn, Rassenwahn, religiöser Wahn, Sinneswahn, Verfolgungswahn, Weiblichkeitswahn, Wirklichkeitswahn

Further reading

“Wahn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Wahn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Wahn” in Duden online

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