papañca: complication, proliferation, objectification. The tendency of the mind to proliferate issues from the sense of "self." This term can also be translated as self-reflexive thinking, reification, falsification, distortion, elaboration, or exaggeration.
~ from A Glossary of Pali and Buddhist Terms by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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