| being | From Be. Existing. Being was formerly used where we now use having. "Being to go to a ball in a few days." . In modern usage, is, are, was or were being, with a past participle following (as built, made, etc) indicates the process toward the completed result expressed by the participle. The form is or was building, in this passive signification, is idiomatic, and, if free from ambiguity, is commonly preferable to the modern is or was being built. The last form of speech is, however, sufficiently authorised by approved writers. The older expression was is, or was, a-building or in building. "A man who is being strangled." (Lamb) "While the article on Burns was being written." (Froude) "Fresh experience is always being gained." (Jowett (Thucyd)) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| grandiose delusion | A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| somatic delusion | A delusion having reference to a nonexistent lesion or alteration of some organ or part of the body; sometimes indistinguishable from hypochondriasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nihilistic delusion | A delusion in which one imagines that the world and all that relates to it have ceased to exist. Synonym: nihilistic delusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion | A false belief, seen most often in psychosis (for example schizophrenia). (27 Sep 1997) |
| delusion of control | Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. Synonym: delusion of passivity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of grandeur | A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| delusion of negation | A delusion in which one imagines that the world and all that relates to it have ceased to exist. Synonym: nihilistic delusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of passivity | Delusion of being controlled, a delusion in which one experiences one's feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions as not one's own, but as being imposed on by some external force. Synonym: delusion of passivity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delusion of persecution | A false notion that one is being persecuted, characteristic symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| delusion of reference | A delusional idea that external events, etc., refer to the self. (05 Mar 2000) |
| systematised delusion | A delusion that is logically constructed from a false premise and embraces a specific sector of the patient's life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encapsulated delusion | A delusion that usually relates to one specific topic or belief but does not pervade an individual's life or level of functioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expansive delusion | A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| unsystematised delusion | One of a group of apparently discrete, disconnected delusion's. (05 Mar 2000) |