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- noun An
imagined orunrealistic conception of oneself - noun psychology An
anxiety toescape from asocial orsentimental condition judged to beunsatisfactory , sometimes by building afictitious personality
Etymologies
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Named after the character of Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary + -ism.
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