also: きょうもう
na-adjective, noun
eccentric; wild; off-kilter; mad
Obsolete term describing a person or behavior as wildly eccentric, mentally unbalanced, or socially deviant. Not used in modern Japanese; encountered only in historical or literary texts.
彼の狂妄な振る舞いは村人たちを困惑させた。
His eccentric behavior baffled the villagers.
古い
In old documents, the expression 'a person of wild eccentricity' can be found.
The term 狂妄 is a Sino-Japanese compound combining 狂 (mad, wild) and 妄 (delusion, reckless). Its exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it appears in classical Chinese and was adopted into Japanese literary usage, now obsolete.