Truman Show delusion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name

A persecutory/grandiose delusion in which the patient believes his/her life is a staged play, a reality television show, etc. or that he/she is being watched by means of cameras.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Truman Show delusion the Truman Show delusion

Etymology

Named after The Truman Show (1998), a comedy-drama film about Truman Burbank, a man who discovers he is living in a constructed reality televised globally around the clock. (The name is a pun on true man.)

Synonyms

Truman syndrome

Related words

main character syndrome

← trululus
← truly
← truly yours
← Truman
← Truman Doctrine

Truman syndrome →
Trumanesque →
Trumanian →
Trumanomics →
trumbash →

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