Desensitize vs Delusion - What's the difference?
desensitize | delusion |
To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The state of being deluded or misled.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=William L. Shirer
, title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
, page=835
, publisher=Simon & Schuster
, location=New York
, isbn=0-671-72869-5
, id=LCCN 81101072
, passage=Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.}}
(Webster 1913)
As a verb desensitize
is to cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.As a noun delusion is
a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.desensitize
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Alternative forms
* desensitise (British)Verb
(en-verb)- Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood.
