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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reality testing¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

This behavior also reduces serious political and societal matters to digital memes, jokes and ephemera, compromising reality testing and making truth itself unknowable.

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The American people are under systematic assault from disinformation, misinformation and propaganda, including conspiracy theories, often spread by malign actors who have successfully undermined the public’s ability to engage in what psychologists describe as “reality testing.”

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Trump's sense of reality testing is very fluid.

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To a large degree, they have lost the ability to engage in what psychologists describe as "reality testing."

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What about their ability to engage in reality testing?

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