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self-deception

noun

1 self-deception

A misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it.

synonym: self-deceit.

Roget 495: error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness etc. adj.; laxity; misconstruction etc. (misinterpretation) 523; ... show more

Dutch: zelfbedrog


Moby thesaurus: airy nothing, autism, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, bubble, calculated deception, chimera, circumvention, conning, daydream, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, deluded belief, delusion, delusiveness, dereism, dream ... show more.

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