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graphomania

n. a pathological impulse to write, which may degenerate into graphorrhea—the compulsive writing of incoherent and meaningless words.

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underconfidence

underconfidence

n. a cognitive bias characterized by an underestimation of one’s ability to perform a task successfully or by an underrating of one’s performance relative to that of others. Compare overconfidence.