Bovarism is an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
Bovarismo es una estimación exagerada, especialmente glamorizada, de uno mismo; egocentrismo.
| Front | bovarism \BO-vuh-riz-em\ |
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| Back | noun An exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit. [From French bovaryisme, after Emma Bovary, a character in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.] "The public property is not so much her as Bovarism. She is part of the collective unconscious. She is, and can be, everyone." - Alan Franks, France's best-kept secret, The Times of London, Aug 12, 1995. |
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