Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself
- n. psychology An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality
Etymologies
- Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary + -ism. (Wiktionary)
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
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Odessa's Words
defenestration, decathect, effulgent, taciturn, ataraxia, coprophagous, nyctitropic, pernicious, paradox, anachronism, synesthesia, cacophony and 223 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
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