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Peter Pan syndrome en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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  • /piːtə pan ˈsɪndɹəʊm/

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) The supposed psychological phenomenon of immaturity among some men, who, like the fictional character, remain childish or childlike and fail to assume appropriate adult social roles and responsibilities.
    • The husband himself (called "he" to emphasize his role as Typical Male) comes across as a rather dense, naughty adolescent boy. He is clearly suffering from a terminal case of the Peter Pan syndrome. 1989, Alice Hall Petry, “Alice Walker: The Achievement of the Short Fiction,”, in Modern Language Studies, volume 19, number 1, page 17:

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Translations (8)

hu Pán Péter szindróma (Supposed psychological phenomenon) · pl kompleks Piotrusia Pana (Supposed psychological phenomenon) · it sindrome di Peter Pan (Supposed psychological phenomenon) · es síndrome de Peter Pan (Supposed psychological phenomenon) · pt síndrome de Peter Pan (Supposed psychological phenomenon) · ja ピーターパン症候群 (Supposed psychological phenomenon) · pl syndrom Piotrusia Pana (Supposed psychological phenomenon) · fr syndrome de Peter Pan (Supposed psychological phenomenon)