Self-deception

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: self-de=cep=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Self-deception, n. 

 Self-deceit.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Self-deception, n. deceiving oneself esp. concerning one's true feelings etc.

Derivative

self-deceit n. self-deceiver n. self-deceiving adj. self-deceptive adj.

THESAURUS

Self-deception

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Self-deception

Error

N error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.