family romance
nounEtymology
From family + romance, in psychoanalytic sense after German Familienroman.
- derived from Familienroman
Definitions
A romantic story about a given family.
A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty…
A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty or otherwise of high birth; (loosely), the emotional ties linking the various members of a family.
- Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for family romance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA