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• n  (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

• Paris finds itself swept up in a craze for chestnut-brown color that is being called "La folie du marron.
• Carried away by a kind of folie deux, the boys resolve "to explore all the possibilities of human experience," to pluck the most exotic flowers of evil.
• French Critic Millau in an early observation of the trend labeled it la grande folie (the great folly).

• mental disorder
• mental disturbance
• disturbance
• psychological disorder

News & Articles

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• Wrap Party: Charli XCX Headlines, Richie Hawtin Ibiza, Die Antwoord 'Cookie Thumper'
  New Video: La Folie Live Premiere Low-key nocturnal synth-pop project La Folie made their official debut June 5 at Berlin’s Berghain Kantine where they played a decade of hardwork and heartbreak for a select audience.
  June 19, 2013 - Vibe Magazine
• Wrap Party: Charli XCX Headlines, Richie Hawtin Spins Ibiza, Die Antwoord Drops 'Cookie Thumper'
  New Video: La Folie Live Premiere Low-key nocturnal synth-pop project La Folie made their official debut June 5 at Berlin’s Berghain Kantine where they played a decade of hardwork and heartbreak for a select audience.
  June 19, 2013 - Vibe Magazine

Quotes

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• Dana Andersen in Financial Times
  There is a predetermined setting - in this case, a Riviera casino in the 1960s; actors choose and develop their own characters; Andersen calls each scene in advance (eg "Jean Folie returns with Stormy Spice to her hotel room, only to discover that...
• Hans Kung in Asia Times Online
  Kung described Dominus Iesus as "a hotch-potch of medieval backwardness and folie de grandeur".