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bovarism

[ boh-vuh-riz-uhm ]

noun

  1. an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.

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Other Words From

  • bova·rist noun
  • bova·ristic adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bovarism1

First recorded in 1900–05; from French bovaryisme, after Emma Bovary, a character in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1857); -ism

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Example Sentences

There is, however, this difference in the Bovarism of Nature's most exquisite moments.

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