self-deception
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- noun
- /ˌsɛlf dɪˈsɛpʃən/
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autoengaño
- Many people engage in self-deception to avoid facing difficult truths about their lives.
- Mass self-deception
- Self-deception occurs
- form of self-deception
And everybody has self deception in varying degrees.
- And everybody has self deception in varying degrees.
- So like maybe, maybe human progress is made by people who don't fall into the self deception.
- And so don't fall into the self deception that you have a better understanding of what's happening than they do.
- I'm saying we to dynamics of self deception, much of which we are ignorant.
- There's trauma associated with that, probably layers of self deception mechanisms.
- Science is equipped with, has equipped itself with mechanisms for avoiding self deception, subjective judgement.
- So one thing I do is to reject this two person model of self deception.
- And I think that self deception around things that we got wrong, as you said, is just it's it's fucking dude.
Examples
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The article concludes with advice to policymakers on how to avoid self-deception in the evaluation of another state's intentions.
Academic text (1995) -
It's called self-deception when we do that.
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I know better than most what self-deception looks like.
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The only deception going on here is your self-deception about what Jesus was trying to say.
Blog text (23) -
And so don't fall into the self deception that you have a better understanding of what's happening than they do.
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Well, it's been a long journey to get away from the lies and the self-deception to this place of knowledge and awareness of who we really are.
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At most, she thought her father was guilty of a brief excursion in self-deception.
Fiction book (1995) -
Envy is a wicked emotion, and when paired with self-deception, it becomes all the more sinister.
Blog text (1) -
Men have a tendency to flatter themselves, and Adams thought this self-deception was responsible for many calamities.
Academic text (2005) -
As I've said, Viktor and Yuri have much in common: most pertinently, a talent for self-deception.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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A strong false belief that someone still has even when it is not true
Refusing to admit unpleasant truths about yourself
Antonyms
How Self-Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word self-deception is made of self- ('yourself') and deception, which comes from deceive meaning 'to trick', so it literally means 'tricking yourself'. That's why self-deception refers to believing something untrue because it feels better or is easier to accept.