folie
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of folie
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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Still, Big and Little Edie are not so far gone in their folie à deux that they are unaware of the Maysles brothers’ presence, and they even interact with the filmmakers at times.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022
In the mid-19th Century, French doctors writing early studies of OCD called it la folie du doute - the madness of doubt.
From BBC • May 9, 2020
In psychiatry there is a condition known as folie à deux, which describes how two people share a psychosis.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2019
She writes about folie à deux and mass hysteria, doppelgängers, sociopathy, revenge.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2016
Dr. Johnson, who was a sufferer from folie du doute, had to touch every post he passed.
From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James
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