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The inclination to skew perceptions of others based on fantasy. The “distortion” is in the perception of others, based not on actual experience with the individual but from a projected fantasy personality.
My thanks to a fellow Logophile for passing this word along.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parataxic_distortion
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