bovarysm
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary + -ism.
Noun[edit]
bovarysm (uncountable)
- An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself.
- (psychology) An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality.
Translations[edit]
anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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