comédie humaine
/kɒməˌdi uːˈmɛn/noun
The sum or scope of everyday human affairs, considered as an extended narrative; a literary portrait of this.
- Sometimes with reference to the series of works collectively titled La Comédie humaine by the French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)..
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Gentleman's Magazine. From French comédie humaine from comédie + humaine, feminine of humain.
- secondary articulation
- secondary boycott
- secondary colour
- secondary evidence
- secondary feather
- secondary industry
- secondary modern school
- secondary picketing
- secondary planet
- secondary process
- secondary sector
- secondary sexual characteristic
- secondary smoke
- secondary smoking
- secondary stress
- secondary structure
- secondary thickening
- secondary treatment
- second ballot
- second base
- second best
- Second Boer War
- second cause
- second chamber
- second childhood