Definition of folie à deux in English:
folie à deux
nounPlural folies à deuxˌfɒlɪ a ˈdəːfôˌlē ä ˈdœ
mass nounDelusion 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'.