folie à deux
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of folie à deux
Borrowed into English from French around 1890–95
Example Sentences
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It deals with the shared life — call it madness, if you will — of a husband and a wife, and the times when their folie à deux edges into public view.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 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
It’s telling how often the image of insanity shows up in creative pairs; two people making their own reality resembles what psychiatrists call a folie à deux, “a madness shared by two.”
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2014
The results are extremely funny in the account of a folie à deux in the dangerous world of teaching, and perceptive in the observation of the creative process.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013
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