false sense

collocation in English

meanings of falseand sense

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false
adjective
uk /fɒls/ us /fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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sense
noun
uk /sens/ us /sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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Examples of false sense

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Guidelines can give the practitioner a falsesense of security.
The unwary will be lulled into a falsesense of security and happily accept a possibly wrong result.
But these medical miracles may have lured women into a falsesense of security with respect to age.
That the albums in some ways conveyed a falsesense of security is another matter.
These serve to create a completely falsesense of continuity between human and animal societies.
Without question, some minimal level of experimental design is critical for evaluation efforts, lest a falsesense of knowledge be derived from severely flawed methodologies.
The subcommittees are going through motions that induce what he feels is a wholly falsesense of encouragement.
She suggests that measures improving the security of sites may increase trust, but there is the danger they will create a falsesense of security.
In actual fact it inspired a falsesense of confidence.
But the remainder of the built environment research community should not indulge in any falsesense of inferiority here.
The danger here is that recognition of ethnic similarities will contribute to the falsesense that program designers and implementers need not be concerned with the cultural background of consumers.
The ambiguity not only on occasion gave him a falsesense of strength but also prompted his enemies to strike at him, when necessary, where he was at his weakest.
Having discovered that a few of them are common has only given us a falsesense of bravado about our ability to predict and control the future.
Fear for our own security often causes us to adopt strategies that create a falsesense of security.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
However, this consensus must not be allowed to give a falsesense of security or draw attention away from actual developments.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They create a falsesense of security among consumers.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It could be misleading and give people a falsesense of security.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is particularly important that no such falsesense of security should be built up at a time when meat supplies are regrettably short.
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