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Stockholm syndrome

a psychological condition in which a person taken hostage sympathizes with or becomes emotionally involved with his or her captors

See Stockholm syndrome in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A phenomenon in which a hostage begins to identify with and grow sympathetic to his or her captor.

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Origin: After Stockholm, where a hostage in a 1973 bank robbery became romantically attached to one of her captors

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