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noun 
  1. The state of being wherein one is completely confident in one's world-view, even though it is based on ideas, concepts or theories that are demonstrably false.
  2. The state of being wherein one is serene in the belief that everybody else is wrong, and seems unable or unwilling to consider any evidence to the contrary.
:To express a belief in creationism to the exclusion of the theory of evolution is to have achieved garvana. Etymology: The word - closely linked to the more popular garvage - was originally coined by David Wright on the http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?board=science BBC Science Messageboards.


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