bovarysm

bovarysm

English

Alternative forms

• bovarism
• Bovarysm

Etymology

Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary +‎ -ism.

Noun

bovarysm (uncountable)

1. An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself.
2. (psychology) An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality.

Translations

anxiety to escape from an unsatisfactory social or sentimental condition

Catalan: bovarisme m Czech: bovarysmus m, bovarismus m Esperanto: bovarismo French: bovarysme (fr) m, bovarisme (fr) m German: Bovarysme m Greek: μποβαρισμός (el) m (bovarismós) Italian: bovarismo (it) m Japanese: ボバリズム (bobarizumu), ボバリスム (bobarisumu) Korean: 보바리즘 (bobarijeum) Polish: bovaryzm m, bowaryzm m Portuguese: bovarismo m Romanian: bovarism (ro) n Russian: бовари́зм m (bovarízm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: боварѝзам m Roman: bovarìzam (sh) m Slovak: bovaryzmus m Spanish: bovarismo m Swedish: bovarysm c