(n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
(n.) The state of being deluded or misled.
(n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
Example Sentences:
(1) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(2) He continued: "There's quite a lot of complacency going on and self-delusion going on.
(3) Paranoid states is a term that covers a number of different disorders in which persecutory and grandiose ideas and delusions constitute a significant part of the symptoms.
(4) The observed psychiatric symptoms were classified into two categories: simple, including incidents of confusion alone or hallucinations with preserved insight, and complex, including delusions or chronic confusion without preserved insight.
(5) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(6) Of course, everyone who is not drawn in by the spectacle of a 69-year-old man with hair that clearly telegraphs its owner’s level of self-delusion and casual relationship to the truth is horrified at Trump’s ascendency in the Republican party primary.
(7) Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by onset in young adulthood, the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions, and the development of enduring psychosocial disability.
(8) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
(9) Delusions have traditionally been regarded as unmodifiable false beliefs.
(10) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
(11) Upon his admission to Broadmoor in 1995, Napper had a number of delusions and thought people were out to get him.
(12) Although delusion remains one of the basic problems in psychopathology, attempts to understand its pathogenesis have been dominated by unsubstantiated speculation.
(13) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(14) Advantages of this definition are discussed and a distinction between delusions (about external reality) and certain actual experiences (happening in the patient's mind) is proposed.
(15) Delusions are common in the early phase of the disease.
(16) They are two separate creatures with very different structures, more like a virus and a host: co-dependent but each with delusions about who is the superior form of life.
(17) This for me is a time for mild pre- Christmas nausea, caused by the annual destruction of a persistent adult delusion, instilled during schooldays, that this is a time for gradually relaxing and then having literally nothing to do for the week leading up to Christmas Day.
(18) Journalists, media types, and the delusive Edinburgh Comedy festival are complicit in supporting a broken system.
(19) In my defence, this has nothing to do with delusions of sophistication (though it would be about time).
(20) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
Denial
Definition:
(n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
(n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
(n.) A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
(n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(3) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
(4) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
(5) "After a period of denial," he said, he and the producers had parted company.
(6) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.
(7) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
(8) Canadian film director Atom Egoyan, whose parents were Armenian-Egyptians, once said: "You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's marginal for the most part.
(9) Denial, resistance, countertransference, and relapse to addictive behaviors are all potential barriers that are often encountered when attempting to treat this population.
(10) As his campaign gained momentum, many have been in denial.
(11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(12) "The same people who have those laws (banning Holocaust denial) are saying we shouldn't have them.
(13) The reality is they seem to be in denial that the Welsh budget is shrinking yet they seem to be calling for more money to be spent in practically every area.
(14) On Thursday he told the Guardian: “There is no more strenuous denial than the one I am giving.
(15) Shortly after Blair and Straw issued their denials, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of MI6 at the time, said: "It was a political decision, having very significantly disarmed Libya, for the government to co-operate with Libya on Islamist terrorism.
(16) To determine the prevalence of off-label anticancer drug use (ie, using drugs to treat conditions other than those listed on the Food and Drug Administration's approved drug label), the extent of reimbursement denials for these uses, and the effect of denials on the treatment of cancer patients.
(17) Factor analysis identified three almost uncorrelated coping factors: turning to others; problem solving; and denial.
(18) The move follows months of prevarication by the prime minister with carefully worded denials.
(19) He said that few in the media or in politics are convinced by Coulson's repeated denials that he knew about phone-hacking at the paper when he edited it.
(20) The unexpected admission breaks Pakistan's policy of blanket denial of involvement.