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Stockholm syndrome
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English
2011 February 28
Etymology
en :clq sv:Norrmalmstorgssyndrom 1
en sv Norrmalmstorgssyndrom. Named after the robbery of Kreditbanken at the Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. Originally, this term was directly translated from Swedish Norrmalmstorgssyndromet as the Norrmalmstorg syndrome, but later Norrmalmstorg was replaced with Stockholm, a word far more commonly known outside Sweden.
Pronunciation
en en-au-Stockholm syndrome.ogg AU
Noun
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A psychological condition in which a hostage emotionally bonds to their captor.
en 2001 w:Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl 259 You're suffering from what humans call Stockholm Syndrome: you have bonded with your captors.
en 28 May 2006 Cape Times Natascha Kampusch, the 18 year old Austrian woman who escaped from her kidnapper last week after eight years in captivity, is thought to be suffering from an extreme version of Stockholm syndrome, in which victims begin to associate and sympathise with their attackers.
en 2017 Adam Kay This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Today I tipped into full-blown Stockholm syndrome and decided to go into work on a Saturday off.
Synonyms
en capture-bonding
en Helsinki syndrome proscribed
Descendants
ca síndrome d'Estocolm 1
nl stockholmssyndroom 1
fr syndrome de Stockholm 1
de Stockholm-Syndrom 1
it sindrome di Stoccolma 1
pt síndrome de Estocolmo 1
es síndrome de Estocolmo 1
sv Stockholmssyndrom 1
Translations
psychological condition
Bulgarian: bg стокхо́лмски синдро́м m
Catalan: ca síndrome d'Estocolm f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 斯德哥爾摩綜合症 Sīdégē'ěrmó zònghézhèng
Danish: da Stokholmsyndrom n, da Stokholm-syndrom n
Dutch: nl stockholmsyndroom n
Esperanto: eo stokholm-sindromo
Estonian: et Stockholmi sündroom
Finnish: fi Tukholma-syndrooma
French: fr syndrome de Stockholm m
Georgian: ka სტოკჰოლმის სინდრომი
German: de Stockholm-Syndrom n
Hungarian: hu Stockholm-szindróma
Italian: it sindrome di Stoccolma f
Japanese: ja ストックホルム症候群 Sutokkuhorumu shōkōgun
Korean: ko 스톡홀름 증후군
Latvian: lv Stokholmas sindroms m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb stockholmssyndrom n
Polish: pl syndrom sztokholmski m
Portuguese: pt síndrome de Estocolmo f
Romanian: ro sindromul Stockholm n
Russian: ru стокго́льмский синдро́м m
Spanish: es síndrome de Estocolmo m
Swedish: sv Stockholmssyndrom n, sv Norrmalmstorgssyndrom n
Thai: th สต็อกโฮล์มซินโดรม sà-dtók-hoom-sin-droom
Turkish: tr Stokholm sendromu, tr Stockholm sendromu
Ukrainian: uk стокго́льмський синдро́м m
Verb
en transitive informal To cause someone to become affected by Stockholm syndrome.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220616140050/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/books/review-in-pretty-is-grown-friends-recall-being-kidnapped.html Sarah Lyall Sarah Lyall Review: In 'Pretty Is,' Grown Friends Recall Being Kidnapped 17 July 2015 The girls, it turns out, found the experience oddly positive, and not because they were brainwashed or Stockholm syndromed.
en w:Cathal Kelly The curious case of all the Bills fans who are not from Buffalo w:The Globe and Mail https://web.archive.org/web/20220814212637/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-the-curious-case-of-all-the-bills-fans-who-are-not-from-buffalo/ Toronto, O.N. w:The Woodbridge Company 17 January 2021 0319-0714 6155622 Eventually, you Stockholm Syndromed yourself into believing that what happened to the Bills mattered to your life. Off the top of my head, I can still list more members of the 1990-93 Super Bowl-averse Bills than kids in my Grade 8 class.
en AA Gill Award winner 2022: introducing Sanjiv Mistry w:The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aa-gill-award-winner-2022-introducing-sanjiv-mistry-qs7s0gw3w https://archive.ph/eqsRk 22 June 2023 London w:News UK 6 March 2022 0140-0460 1071756813 Britannia's is the best because they understand that a bunny is as much a feat of engineering as cooking. The quarter loaf of bread must, must be of the generic, mass-produced sort (not a farmhouse loaf, definitely not a milk bread, just standard unsliced white), with the light crust a dam wall holding in a reservoir of rich mutton curry that's Stockholm-syndroming massive potato halves, the sauce riveted with cloves and singing to the tune of ginger and curry leaves, the whole edible edifice capped with a dome built of the belly of the bread.
en terms derived from toponyms
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