bovarism

[ boh-vuh-riz-uh m ]
/ ˈboʊ vəˌrɪz əm /

noun

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

Origin of bovarism

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

OTHER WORDS FROM bovarism

bo·va·rist, noun bo·va·ris·tic, adjective