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Definition of self-deception in English: self-deceptionnoun mass nounThe action or practice of allowing oneself to believe that a false or unvalidated feeling, idea, or situation is true. Jane remarked on men's capacity for self-deception Example sentencesExamples - They're lost in a tangle of their own enthusiasm and self-deception.
- Ignorance, self-deception and false consciousness are not taken care of by any techniques of reconciliation.
- The printed word is no match for intransigence and self-deception, however, so the papers keep stacking up as the crisis deepens.
- In a situation with widespread deception and self-deception, it is difficult to make the proper judgments.
- Their most enduring lesson, of course, is in the art of lying and self-deception.
- This is an experienced fact and cannot, without dishonesty or self-deception, be denied.
- I think that his mind is capable of almost infinite self-deception.
- There is no question of self-deception or hypocrisy here.
- To get within reach of this plea, it follows that self-deception is almost always integral to the act of lying.
- The first half of the book is an introduction to evolutionary psychology and to theories of deception and self-deception.
- Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together.
- I think that self-deception is, in a wealthy society, the main way that people overcome scarcity.
- It doesn't make him one whit less sharp at ferreting out deception, including self-deception.
- This is wishful thinking pursued to the point of deception and self-deception.
- Her soliloquy is a masterpiece of self-deception.
- We just deal with the reality, and banish self-deception.
- Later, after she makes her complaint, she sees her complaint for what it is - layers of self-deception and sin.
- Such a pattern of self-deception is extremely troubling in anyone.
- The world of selling is a particular haven of deception, and self-deception is the most priceless asset of all.
- Why is there a philosophical problem about self-deception?
Synonyms make-believe, act, putting on an act, acting, dissembling, shamming, sham, faking, feigning, simulation, falsification, dissimulation, invention, imagination, play-acting, posturing, posture, posing, pose, cant, attitudinizing
Derivatives adjective Perhaps you think baring your soul so poetically will make you irresistible, but to me it sounds condescending and self-deceptive. Example sentencesExamples - Applied to distributive justice, the foundational issue is a self-deceptive hypocrisy in the ruling class.
- As the press has withered, the government, already existing in a self-referential and self-deceptive universe, was deprived of the ability to learn of danger from its own policies and thus make course corrections.
- They wanted, remaining self-deceptive to their core, to hear that love was all they needed - over and over again.
- In the short term, as we always have, we will get away with our historic blindness to our myopic, self-deceptive management of our reserve components.
Definition of self-deception in US English: self-deceptionnounˈˌself dəˈsepSHənˈˌsɛlf dəˈsɛpʃən The action or practice of allowing oneself to believe that a false or unvalidated feeling, idea, or situation is true. Jane remarked on men's capacity for self-deception Example sentencesExamples - We just deal with the reality, and banish self-deception.
- Her soliloquy is a masterpiece of self-deception.
- Their most enduring lesson, of course, is in the art of lying and self-deception.
- This is wishful thinking pursued to the point of deception and self-deception.
- Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together.
- The world of selling is a particular haven of deception, and self-deception is the most priceless asset of all.
- I think that self-deception is, in a wealthy society, the main way that people overcome scarcity.
- To get within reach of this plea, it follows that self-deception is almost always integral to the act of lying.
- Such a pattern of self-deception is extremely troubling in anyone.
- The printed word is no match for intransigence and self-deception, however, so the papers keep stacking up as the crisis deepens.
- It doesn't make him one whit less sharp at ferreting out deception, including self-deception.
- Ignorance, self-deception and false consciousness are not taken care of by any techniques of reconciliation.
- In a situation with widespread deception and self-deception, it is difficult to make the proper judgments.
- I think that his mind is capable of almost infinite self-deception.
- There is no question of self-deception or hypocrisy here.
- Later, after she makes her complaint, she sees her complaint for what it is - layers of self-deception and sin.
- Why is there a philosophical problem about self-deception?
- They're lost in a tangle of their own enthusiasm and self-deception.
- The first half of the book is an introduction to evolutionary psychology and to theories of deception and self-deception.
- This is an experienced fact and cannot, without dishonesty or self-deception, be denied.
Synonyms make-believe, act, putting on an act, acting, dissembling, shamming, sham, faking, feigning, simulation, falsification, dissimulation, invention, imagination, play-acting, posturing, posture, posing, pose, cant, attitudinizing
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