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