polite fiction
nounDefinitions
A social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe…
A social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid conflict or embarrassment.
- Susan is only able to deal with the fact that her husband has sex with the man down the street through a polite fiction. She knows what her husband is really doing when he says he is going "to buy cigarettes".
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for polite fiction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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