delusion of adequacy
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The false belief that one is adequate; the belief that one is doing a competent job when one is actually incompetent.
— But compared to the jagged, snow-covered peaks in the distance, the mountains back east were mud hills with delusions of adequacy.
词源
Coined by American writer and Broadway theater critic Walter Kerr in 1951 in a review in New York Herald Tribune review of a Broadway play called Buy Me Blue Ribbons (in reference to star Jay Robinson). An ironic variation of delusion of grandeur.
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