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An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary + -ism.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
bovarisme
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Czech:
bovarysmus
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Czech:
bovarismus
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Esperanto:
bovarismo
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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French:
bovarysme
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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French:
bovarisme
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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German:
Bovarysme
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Greek:
μποβαρισμός
(bovarismós)
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Italian:
bovarismo
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Japanese:
ボバリズム
(bobarizumu)
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Japanese:
ボバリスム
(bobarisumu)
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Korean:
보바리즘
(bobarijeum)
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Polish:
bovaryzm
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Polish:
bowaryzm
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Portuguese:
bovarismo
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Romanian:
bovarism
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Russian:
бовари́зм
(bovarízm)
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Serbo-Croatian:
боварѝзам
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Serbo-Croatian:
bovarìzam
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Slovak:
bovaryzmus
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Spanish:
bovarismo
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition
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Swedish:
bovarysm
— anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition