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Stockholm syndrome

Stock·holm syn·drome


noun 
Definition:
 
hostage's sympathy for captor: a condition experienced by some people who have been held as hostages for an extended time in which they begin to identify with and feel sympathetic toward their captors

[Late 20th century. Because a hostage taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm exhibited this]
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