"bovarysm" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bovarism [alternative], Bovarysm [alternative]
Etymology: Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary + -ism. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Madame Bovary|ism}} Madame Bovary + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} bovarysm (uncountable)
  1. An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself. Tags: uncountable
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  2. (psychology) An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology Translations (anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition): bovarisme [masculine] (Catalan), bovarysmus [masculine] (Czech), bovarismus [masculine] (Czech), bovarismo (Esperanto), bovarysme [masculine] (French), bovarisme [masculine] (French), Bovarysme [masculine] (German), μποβαρισμός (bovarismós) [masculine] (Greek), bovarismo [masculine] (Italian), ボバリズム (bobarizumu) (Japanese), ボバリスム (bobarisumu) (Japanese), 보바리즘 (bobarijeum) (Korean), bovaryzm [masculine] (Polish), bowaryzm [masculine] (Polish), bovarismo [masculine] (Portuguese), bovarism [neuter] (Romanian), бовари́зм (bovarízm) [masculine] (Russian), боварѝзам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bovarìzam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bovaryzmus [masculine] (Slovak), bovarismo [masculine] (Spanish), bovarysm [common-gender] (Swedish)
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Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bovaryzmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bovarismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bovarysm"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Flaubert",
    "Madame Bovary"
  ],
  "word": "bovarysm"
}

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