folie à deux
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of folie à deux
Borrowed into English from French around 1890–95
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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
In the ideal production, it creates the sense of fire meeting fire in a folie à deux between two ill-matched yet inexorably bound lovers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
A folie à deux is a forgivable response to the rigors of middle school.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
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
This small-scale tale of a dangerous folie à deux is rather like Martin Scorsese's King of Comedy or Stephen King's Misery transposed to Merseyside, a tale of celebrity worship gone off the rails.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2010
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