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folie à deux

fo·lie à deux [ fòllee a d ] (plural fo·lies à deux [ fòllee a d ])


noun 
Definition:
 
shared psychiatric disorder: a psychiatric disorder with symptoms common to two people who are very close. Often only one person actually has a disorder, the other choosing to share the symptoms or delusions of the first.

[Late 19th century. < French, "dual delusion"]
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