self-delusion

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self-delusion

the act or state of deceiving or deluding oneself

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self-delusion [ˌselfdɪˈluːʒən] N → autoengaño m

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Disillusionment ostrichism self threat			is raised, and some long mistake, some complicated edifice of self-delusion, over- confidence, and wrong reasoning is brought down in a fatal shock, and the heart-searing experience of your ship's keel scraping and scrunching over, say, a coral reef. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context Apply the contemptible system of self-delusion which my confession has revealed, to that holiday arrangement for a tour in the north which has astonished and annoyed you. I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context What she compelled herself to believe -- what, finally, she reasoned upon as her motive for continuing a resident of New England -- was half a truth, and half a self-delusion. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context			self-content self-contentment self-contradiction self-contradictory self-control self-controlled Self-convicted Self-conviction self-correcting Self-created self-critical self-criticism self-cultivation Self-culture self-deceit self-deceived self-deceiving self-deception self-defeating self-defence self-defense Self-defensive self-definition Self-degradation Self-delation self-delusion self-denial self-denying Self-dependent Self-depending Self-depraved self-deprecating self-deprecatory self-depreciation self-destroy Self-destroyer self-destroying fuze self-destruct self-destruction self-destructive self-determination self-determined Self-determining self-development Self-devised Self-devoted Self-devotement self-devotion Self-devouring Self-diffusive self-digestion			Self-defence (law) Self-Defence Force Self-Defence Force Self-Defence Forces Self-Defence Forces Self-Defending Network self-defense self-defense self-defense self-defense Self-Defense Fleet Self-Defense Force Self-Defense Force Self-Defense Force Self-Defense Forces Self-Defense Forces Self-Defense Forces Self-Defense Surface Missile System Self-Defense Techniques Self-Defense Techniques Self-Defense Techniques self-defensive self-defensive self-defensive self-definition self-defocusing Self-degradation Self-deification Self-delation Self-Delimiting Numeric Value self-delusion self-delusions self-denial self-denial self-denouncing self-denunciatory self-denying self-denying self-denyingly self-denyingly Self-dependent Self-depending Self-depraved self-deprecating self-deprecatingly Self-deprecation self-deprecatory self-depreciation self-depreciatory self-derived power Self-Described Anarchist Collective Self-Describing Data Format Self-Descriptive Inventory Self-Descriptive Situational Awareness Self-designation Self-Designing Flight Control self-destroy

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