family romance (English, noun)
expansion: family romance (plural family romances)
Senses:
glosses: A romantic story about a given family.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: family romances
tags: plural