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autism: (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people

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dreamworld collapse

castle in the air collapse

flight of fancy collapse

self-interest collapse

overcompensation collapse: excessive compensation; (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite

impracticality collapse: concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use

misbelief collapse

wrong impression collapse

poker face collapse: a face without any interpretable expression (as that of a good poker player)

dead pan collapse

egotism collapse: an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

unfriendliness collapse: an unfriendly disposition; dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness

escapism collapse

ego trip collapse

self-serving collapse: interested only in yourself

self-admiration collapse

self-seeking collapse

idealization collapse: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"; something that exists only as an idea; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

romanticism collapse: impractical romantic ideals and attitudes; an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure); a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"

straight face collapse: a serious facial expression giving no evidence of interest or amusement

objectivity collapse: judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices

self-deception collapse: a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it

chimera collapse: a grotesque product of the imagination; (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

misconception collapse: an incorrect conception

sublimation collapse: (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable; (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid

self-absorption collapse: preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else

pipe dream collapse: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

wish fulfillment collapse

daydream collapse: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming"

dereism collapse

unreality collapse: the quality possessed by something that is unreal; the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact

self-esteem collapse: a feeling of pride in yourself

defense mechanism collapse: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

greed collapse: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

narcissism collapse

anesthesia collapse: loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness

dreamland collapse

self-indulgence collapse

ignis fatuus collapse

incompatibility collapse: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination; the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time; (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

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