folie
Americannoun
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folies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of folie
First recorded in 1795–1805
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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
A folie à deux is a forgivable response to the rigors of middle school.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
Which made me think of a favourite quotation of Lessing's from Minna:—"Tout les gens d'esprit aiment le jeu à la folie."
From Ideala by Sarah Grand
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
His father was a small vinegrower and cultivator, who had been rather disgusted by the fugues of his eldest son, but who was now resigned to the latter's étranges folies.
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
On ne fait pas de ces folies la!" says he, offering me snuff, "and your grandfather was a man of esprit!
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
On a fait des folies pour moi, and here I am, a poor rheumatic creature, with a false front and a bad temper.
From Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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