reality testing
noun Psychiatry.
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
First recorded in 1920–25
Words nearby reality testing
reality awareness,
reality check,
reality fiction,
reality principle,
reality show,
reality testing,
reality tv,
reality-based,
realization,
realize,
reallocate
Medical definitions for reality testing
reality testing
n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego function by which the objective or real world and one's relationship to it are evaluated and appreciated by the self.