Definitions for folie

folie fo·lie

Spelling: [faw-lee]
IPA: /fɔˈli/

Folie is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in folie (efilo).

Definitions for folie

noun

  1. madness; insanity.

Origin of folie

First recorded in 1795-1805

Examples for folie

Among the serious results of faulty mental habit must be included also the doubting folly (folie du doute).

This 'folie des nombres,' against which (p. 004) certain French Authorities have warned us, is a very stern reality.

They brand our gifts with fancy scientific names, such as Megalomania, Paranoia, folie des grandeurs.

The French had coined a name for the distemper and called it folie d'Afrique.

Some of them went into the folie Wood nearby and met seven German officers strolling about the glades, as though no war was on.

In addition, she suffered from echolalia, echokinesis, and folie du doute.

Its owners head fell, severed by the guillotine, and his folie became national property.

One folie Tristan was composed in England in the last years of the 12th century.

Of the two terms (folie circulaire and manic-depressive insanity) the latter is the more correct.

Dr. Johnson, who was a sufferer from folie du doute, had to touch every post he passed.

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