English Explanatory Dictionary

Werther effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The situation where a widely publicized suicide leads to a number of copycat suicides.

Word forms

Werther effect Werther effects

Etymology

In reference to The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Related words

Papageno effect
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