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Parasocial

Noun

‘Designating a relationship characterised by the one-sided, unreciprocated sense of intimacy felt by a viewer, fan, or follower for a well-known or prominent figure (typically a media celebrity), in which the follower or fan comes to feel (falsely) that they know the celebrity as a friend’

Sanskrit equivalent

मिथ्यासौहार्दम्

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