folie

[faw-lee]

noun, plural fo·lies

[faw-lee] /fɔˈli/. French.

madness; insanity.

Origin of folie

First recorded in 1795–1805

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Examples from the Web for folie

Historical Examples of folie

The French had coined a name for the distemper and called it folie d'Afrique.
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W. Somerset Maugham
In addition, she suffered from echolalia, echokinesis, and folie du doute.
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Henry Meigne
Among the serious results of faulty mental habit must be included also the doubting folly (folie du doute).
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George Lincoln Walton, M.D.
One Folie Tristan was composed in England in the last years of the 12th century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Various
This 'folie des nombres,' against which (p. 004) certain French Authorities have warned us, is a very stern reality.
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Frederick von Bernhardi.