folie à trois

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

French folie à trois (“madness of three (people)”).

Noun[edit]

folie à trois (uncountable)

  1. (psychiatry) A form of shared psychotic disorder in which three individuals have the same or similar delusional beliefs, usually by transference.

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