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Fictitious vs Bovarism - What's the difference?

fictitious | bovarism |

As an adjective fictitious

is not real; invented; contrived.

As a noun bovarism is

an imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself.

fictitious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not real; invented; contrived.
  • St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

    Synonyms

    * imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive

    bovarism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself
  • (psychology) An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality