"delusion of adequacy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "An ironic variation of delusion of grandeur.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "delusions of adequacy",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "delusions of adequacy"
      },
      "expansion": "delusion of adequacy (plural delusions of adequacy)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Paul Lucas, Linda A. Lavid, Creatura, page 146",
          "text": "But compared to the jagged, snow-covered peaks in the distance, the mountains back east were mud hills with delusions of adequacy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The false belief that one is adequate; the belief that one is doing a competent job when one is actually incompetent."
      ],
      "id": "en-delusion_of_adequacy-en-noun-L1mun2NF",
      "links": [
        [
          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "competent",
          "competent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "delusion of adequacy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "An ironic variation of delusion of grandeur.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "delusions of adequacy",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "delusions of adequacy"
      },
      "expansion": "delusion of adequacy (plural delusions of adequacy)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Paul Lucas, Linda A. Lavid, Creatura, page 146",
          "text": "But compared to the jagged, snow-covered peaks in the distance, the mountains back east were mud hills with delusions of adequacy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The false belief that one is adequate; the belief that one is doing a competent job when one is actually incompetent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "competent",
          "competent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "delusion of adequacy"
}