family romance
Meanings
noun
- A romantic story about a given family.
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From family + romance, in psychoanalytic sense after German Familienroman.
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