self-deception

English

Etymology

self- +‎ deception

Noun

self-deception (usually uncountable, plural self-deceptions)

1. The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.

Synonyms

• (fooling oneself): self-deceit

Translations

fooling oneself

• Czech: sebeklam m
• Estonian: enesepettus
• Finnish: itsepetos (fi)
• French: auto-illusion (fr) f
• German: Selbstbetrug (de) m
• Greek: αυταπάτη (el) f (aftapáti)
• Icelandic: sjálfsblekking f
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• Kannada: ಅತ್ಮವಂಚನೆ (kn) (atmavañcane)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: autoenganação f
• Russian: самообма́н (ru) m (samoobmán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самообмана f

  Roman: samoobmana (sh) f