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reality testing

noun

, Psychiatry.
  1. the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of reality testing1

First recorded in 1920–25

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