Why this word is great
GRANDOMANIA — [Noun] An obsession with grand, elaborate, and imposing architecture or ornamentation. From the English grand ("large, imposing") + the connecting vowel -o- + mania ("excessive enthusiasm or craze"). Unlike megalomania, which inflates the self, or mere ornamentation, which neutrally adorns, grandomania projects an insatiable hunger outward onto the built world. It is the marble colonnade where a post would suffice, the ballroom scaled for phantoms, the ceiling fresco so dense it seems to press the air from the room—a testament not to gods or kings, but to the melancholic truth that to build something vast is often to confess a fear of the small, the silent, and the empty.