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family romance

  1. Psychoanalysis a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  2. loosely the system of relationships within a family group

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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