bovarysm

English

Alternative forms

bovarism
Bovarysm

Etymology

Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary +‎ -ism.

Noun

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

anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition

Catalan: bovarisme m
Czech: bovarysmus m, bovarismus m
Esperanto: bovarismo
French: bovarysme (fr) m, bovarisme (fr) m
German: Bovarysme m
Greek: μποβαρισμός (el) m (bovarismós)
Italian: bovarismo m
Japanese: ボバリズム (bobarizumu), ボバリスム (bobarisumu)
Korean: 보바리즘 (bobarijeum)
Polish: bovaryzm m, bowaryzm m

Portuguese: bovarismo m
Romanian: bovarism (ro) n
Russian: бовари́зм m (bovarízm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: боварѝзам m

Roman: bovarìzam (sh) m
Slovak: bovaryzmus m
Spanish: bovarismo m
Swedish: bovarysm c

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