folie

Other forms of folie

plural

folies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about folie

What does folie mean?

folie means "(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness".

How many syllables are in folie?

folie has 2 syllables: fo-lie. The stress falls on "fo".

What is another word for folie?

Close synonyms include mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is folie a common word?

folie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.