2 definitions by TheNotADick
a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate their positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative qualities, relative to others. This is evident in a variety of areas including intelligence, performance on tasks or tests and the possession of desirable characteristics or personality traits. It is one of many positive illusions relating to the self, and is a phenomenon studied in social psychology.
by TheNotADick January 23, 2011
1. a measurement of speed, varying from slow to fast depending on the context of its use.
2. a derogatory term for someone who is not of your liking, someone who thinks of themselves as better than everyone else, and/or suffers from Illusory superiority.
3. as a given name, Dick is a diminutive form of Richard
4. a biological feature of male animals including both vertebrates and invertebrates.
5. a reproductive, intromittent organ that additionally serves as the urinal duct in placental mammals.
2. a derogatory term for someone who is not of your liking, someone who thinks of themselves as better than everyone else, and/or suffers from Illusory superiority.
3. as a given name, Dick is a diminutive form of Richard
4. a biological feature of male animals including both vertebrates and invertebrates.
5. a reproductive, intromittent organ that additionally serves as the urinal duct in placental mammals.
by TheNotADick January 23, 2011