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Definition of Folie
1. Noun. (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness.
Category relationships: Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Psychopathology
Generic synonyms: Disorder, Upset
Specialized synonyms: Asperger's Syndrome, Anxiety Disorder, Psychosomatic Disorder, Aberration, Conversion Disorder, Conversion Hysteria, Conversion Reaction, Delirium, Delusional Disorder, Encopresis, Folie A Deux, Personality Disorder, Affective Disorder, Emotional Disorder, Emotional Disturbance, Major Affective Disorder, Schizothymia, Neurosis, Neuroticism, Psychoneurosis, Dissociative Disorder
Definition of Folie
1. folly [n -S] - See also: folly
Medical Definition of Folie
1. Old term for madness or insanity. Origin: Fr. Folly (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folie
Literary usage of Folie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"Int. J. of Ethics, iv, 1894, pp. 269-284. JB Sur la raison et la folie. Paris, 1897.
... De l'irritation et de la folie, ib., 1828-29 ; э« éd. aug., 1839. ..."
2. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"... the name folie de doute. Gray mentions a case in a patient who would go out
of a door, close it, and then come back, uncertain as to whether he had ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"ART. XVIII.—Memoiren des Herrn de la folie. Herausgegeben von Nie.mand. Braunschweig.
Meyer. 1827. Memoirs of M. de la folie ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"In order that folie by contagion exist, there must be two principal pathogenic
elements: ... "Morbid contagion is the raison d'etre of all forms of folie by ..."
5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Of these may be mentioned folie circulaire, or recurrent or alternating insanity,
characterized by the alternation of periods of excitement and depression ..."
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