'Self-deception' definitions:
Definition of 'self-deception'
(from WordNet)
noun
A misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it [syn: self-deception, self-deceit]
Definition of 'Self-deception'
From: GCIDE
- Self-deception \Self`-de*cep"tion\, n. Self-deceit. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'self-deception'
From: 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,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false belief,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- misinterpretation,
- misunderstanding,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- pipe dream,
- putting on,
- self-deceit,
- self-delusion,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wrong impression