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Meanings of folie in English
Portuguese
doença mental Catalan
pertorbació mental 
(Psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness.
Synonyms
Examples for "disturbance"
Examples for "disturbance"
1
They forced their way inside when they heard a disturbance, police said.
2
The people in the tent turned in the direction of the disturbance.
3
His execution was reported as a typical case of public order disturbance.
4
Clearly these are populations that cannot stand a great deal of disturbance.
5
There is legitimate fear of more disturbance, said government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn.
1
Evidently on that night the crisis of her mental disorder was reached.
2
In the mental disorder that followed, he was spotted and killed easily.
3
Depression was found as the most common mental disorder among South Africans.
4
A quarter of the victims were identified as having a mental disorder.
5
Mortality associated with mental disorder increased, most clearly during the mid 1980s.
1
I think I saw signs of mental disturbance in our luncheon to-day.
2
They saw that she was in a condition of serious mental disturbance.
3
But as the two women walked on together, her mental disturbance continued.
4
After this there could be no doubt that there was actual mental disturbance.
5
You spoke just now of over-work as a cause for this mental disturbance.
1
It was, Chow testified, hotly debated whether DID even existed as a psychological disorder.
2
Third, financial repression isn't a psychological disorder, it is the new way of the world.
3
This study tested the hypothesis that metacognitions are a general vulnerability factor for psychological disorder.
4
Conclusions: Results on long term psychosocial QoL remain uncertain with some suggestion of psychological disorder persisting.
5
The effort to explain them is understood not just as a political paradox but a psychological disorder.
Usage of folie in English
1
She's become quite the firebrand whilst acting as her husband's partner in a folie-a-deux.
2
He says: 'I have had under my care altogether about 40 cases of typical folie circulaire.'
3
Noailles says, "Qu'il a fait une folie, mais qu'il est pr'et 'a la r'eparer."
4
This psychasthenic state, the folie du doute of the French, is accompanied by fear, restlessness and an oppressive feeling of unreality.
5
The honeymoon was over before That Wedding, but the Gallic spectacle of this Celtic folie de grandeur was too much for the common cumainn.
6
Le Grande du Saulle has given to the disease in which there is a morbid doubt about everything done, the name folie de doute.
7
You want to do it all yourself-tofill the eye of the girl alone, and be tucked away to By-byfor your pains-mais ,quellefolie!
8
Like many other men of genius he suffered all his life from folie de doute, indeed his was what specialists call "a beautiful case."
9
Of this inner wisdom, this quietness of thought, this "folie des grandeurs" of the soul, he had a thousand times as much as Macaulay.
10
Fortunately, no one man aboard the ship can launch a strike; the cooperation of 6 men is required, in a sort of "folie a six."
11
In about twenty minutes, the carriage stopped not far from the Folies-Bergères.
12
Through the house there was a hush, unusual at the Folies Bergères.
13
Folies Bergeres sounds French, and she was making sort of French noises.
14
It was, therefore, to the Hotel des Folies that he was going.
15
It was at Petite-Saens that I first saw the Divisional Folies.
16
On the advice of a friend, he went to the Folies-Bergere.
Frequent collocations
Translations for folie
Portuguese
Folie through the time