bovarism

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• bovarism — BOVARÍSM s.n. Tendinţă prezentă la unele persoane care, nemulţumite de realitatea propriei lor condiţii, îşi făuresc o personalitate fictivă, corespunzătoare aspiraţiilor lor. – Din fr. bovarysme. Trimis de valeriu, 21.03.2003. Sursa: DEX 98 … …   Dicționar Român

• bovarism — bovarist, n. bovaristic, adj. /boh veuh riz euhm/, n. an exaggerated, esp. glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit. [1900 05; < F bovaryisme, after Emma Bovary, a character in Flaubert s novel Madame Bovary (1857); see ISM] * * * …   Universalium

• bovarism — noun a) An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself b) An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a ficti …   Wiktionary

• bovarism — bo·va·rism …   English syllables

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• conceit — n 1. self esteem, self importance, self approbation, self admiration, self love, self worship, self adulation; pride, vanity, vainglory, vaingloriousness, bovarism, egotism, Inf. ego trip, Inf. big head; self praise, self glorification,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• egoism — n 1. selfishness, self indulgence, self gratification, self satisfaction, self serving; self consideration, self interest, self aggrandisement, Inf. looking out for number one; personalism, privatism, individualism. 2. egotism, self conceit, self …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• hauteur — n haughtiness, arrogance, self importance, presumptuousness, overconfidence, fastuousness; pretentiousness, hoity toity, affectedness, pomposity, pompousness; snobbery, snobbishness, airs, conceit, conceitedness, vaingloriousness, bovarism,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder