"delusion of adequacy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: delusions of adequacy [plural]
Etymology: An ironic variation of delusion of grandeur. Head templates: {{en-noun|delusions of adequacy}} delusion of adequacy (plural delusions of adequacy)
  1. (usually in the plural) The false belief that one is adequate; the belief that one is doing a competent job when one is actually incompetent. Tags: plural-normally
    Sense id: en-delusion_of_adequacy-en-noun-L1mun2NF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2015, Ginny Gilder, chapter 1, in Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX:",
          "text": "Whatever delusion of adequacy my admission to my father's alma mater had encouraged evaporated like morning dew, and I was left to panic before the stark, unblinking truth: I was an interloper.",
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