folie
Americannoun
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folies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of folie
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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In psychiatry there is a condition known as folie à deux, which describes how two people share a psychosis.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2019
A folie à deux is a forgivable response to the rigors of middle school.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
In “Disco Pigs,” this perspective is a folie à deux, the shared and sustained creation of a lad and lass who grew up together from infancy in a soul-sapping council estate in County Cork.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2018
Some have suggested their relationship was a classic folie a deux, a shared psychosis in which a delusional belief is transferred from one person to another.
From BBC ● May 16, 2017
He discovered a peculiar kind of scarlet dyestuff, and he expended so much money on his establishment that it was named by the common people la folie Gobelin.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux relationships with machine personalities that don’t really exist.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023
For Sinclair, the grandest of these folies de grandeur, the whitest of these white elephants, is the 2012 Olympics site, whose construction has been under way in east London for four years now.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
When the restlessness of Louis XV could no longer find moorings in this brilliancy, there came into being little houses called folies, garden hermitages for the privileged.
From The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe
Imagine what would be the impression if some day a sovereign went on the stage of the folies Bergères as a "number" for a sleight-of-hand performance!
From Characters and events of Roman History by Frances Lance Ferrero
M. de Mauves had fait quelques folies which his wife had taken absurdly to heart.
From Madame De Mauves by Henry James
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