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单词 folie à deux
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Definition of folie à deux in English:

folie à deux

nounPlural folies à deuxˌfɒlɪ a ˈdəːfôˌlē ä ˈdœ
mass noun
  • Delusion or mental illness shared by two people in close association.

    a classic case of folie à deux
    count noun she entered a folie à deux with her therapist
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The strange dance of recrimination, regret, and new intimacy between these two make Bergman's late-period folies à deux look arid and academic in contrast.
    • Addicts of flaming folies à deux will be pleased to learn that this season is providing a promisingly thorny set of variations on the theme of really tough love.
    • They each reinforce each others insanity - in psychology this is called a folie à deux or a shared madness.
    • As noted above, we could uncover no causative or precipitating emotional or other factors for this folie à deux dissociative disorder.

Origin

French, literally 'shared madness'.

 
 

Definition of folie à deux in US English:

folie à deux

nounfôˌlē ä ˈdœ
  • Delusion or mental illness shared by two people in close association.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They each reinforce each others insanity - in psychology this is called a folie à deux or a shared madness.
    • As noted above, we could uncover no causative or precipitating emotional or other factors for this folie à deux dissociative disorder.
    • Addicts of flaming folies à deux will be pleased to learn that this season is providing a promisingly thorny set of variations on the theme of really tough love.
    • The strange dance of recrimination, regret, and new intimacy between these two make Bergman's late-period folies à deux look arid and academic in contrast.

Origin

French, literally ‘shared madness’.

 
 
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