reality testing
nounPsychiatry.
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.
Origin of reality testing
1First recorded in 1920–25
Words Nearby reality testing
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How to use reality testing in a sentence
You can also make a habit of reality testing—that is, practicing looking twice at text to see if it changes.
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