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  • 21delusion of negation — nihilistic delusion a depressive delusion that the self or part of the self, part of the body, other persons, or the whole world has ceased to exist …

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  • 22Self-fulfilling prophecy — Sociology …

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  • 23delusion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deception; illusion, fantasy, misconception, hallucination. See error. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An illusion] Syn. phantasm, hallucination, fancy; see illusion 1 . 2. [A false belief] Syn. misconception …

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  • 24delusion — A false belief or wrong judgment held with conviction despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. [L. de ludo, pp. lusus, to play false, deceive, fr. ludo, to play] d. of control, d. of being controlled a d. in which one experiences one s… …

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  • 25self-contradiction — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, disproportion, disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness,… …

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  • 26self-deception — n. Illusion, delusion, hallucination, monomania …

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  • 27delusion — n 1. misconception, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, misconstruction, misbelief; fallacy, error, mistake; self deception, fool s paradise; illusion, false impression, myth, ignis fatuus, will o the wisp, bubble; hallucination …

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  • 28The God Delusion — For the documentary film, see The God Delusion (film). The God Delusion   …

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  • 29Mirrored self-misidentification — is the delusional belief that one s reflection in a mirror is some other person (often believed to be someone who is following them around). Often people who suffer from this delusion are not delusional about anything else. It is considered to be …

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  • 30Cotard delusion — The Cotard delusion or Cotard s syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome[1] is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost… …

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