delusion of adequacy

== English == === Etymology === Coined by American writer and Broadway theater critic Walter Kerr in 1951 in a review in New York Herald Tribune review of a Broadway play called Buy Me Blue Ribbons (in reference to star Jay Robinson). An ironic variation of delusion of grandeur. === Noun === delusion of adequacy (plural delusions of adequacy) (usually in the plural) The false belief that one is adequate; the belief that one is doing a competent job when one is actually incompetent.