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See definition of self-deceptions on Dictionary.com
  • as inwishful thinking
  • as indelusion

synonyms for self-deceptions

  • delusion
  • fantasy
  • mistaken belief
  • self-deception
  • sophistry
  • deception
  • fantasy
  • hallucination
  • illusion
  • pipe dream
  • apparition
  • blunder
  • casuistry
  • chicanery
  • daydream
  • deceptiveness
  • dream
  • error
  • fallacy
  • fancy
  • figment
  • ghost
  • lapse
  • mirage
  • misapprehension
  • mistake
  • oversight
  • phantasm
  • phantom
  • self-deception
  • shade
  • speciousness
  • spuriousness
  • trickery
  • trip
  • vision
  • eidolon
  • false impression
  • fool's paradise
  • head trip
  • ignis fatuus
  • optical illusion
On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-deceptions, such as: delusion, fantasy, mistaken belief, self-deception, and sophistry.

antonyms for self-deceptions

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  • reality
  • fact
  • reality
  • truth
  • accuracy
  • actuality
  • being
  • certainty
  • correction
  • fix
  • honesty
  • right
  • success
  • surety
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How to use self-deceptions in a sentence

The self-deceptions of wealth, power, and prominence wear thin.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKINDHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
It was amusing, how she deceived herself—for the harmless self-deceptions of us chronic mummers are always amusing.
THE FASHIONABLE ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA CRAIGDAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
But Cochrane saw his own self-deceptions with a savage clarity even as he tried to keep them.
OPERATION: OUTER SPACEWILLIAM FITZGERALD JENKINS
Twining's were no little foibles, no small weaknesses; none of his faults had their root in any easy self-deceptions.
DAVENPORT DUNN, VOLUME 1 (OF 2)CHARLES JAMES LEVER
The latter case begets all sorts of hypocrisies and self-deceptions.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGYROBERT E. PARK
True, his mind might be subject to such self-deceptions as the mind of all other men.
THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY, VOL. II, NO. IVARIOUS
Now, I am curious to hear what injury I was inflicting on that old woman at No. 12 by any self-deceptions of mine?
A DAY'S RIDECHARLES JAMES LEVER
Little Camilles are apt to be hot-headed and fanciful; they are subject to self-deceptions regarding their sentiments.
SAMUEL BROHL & COMPANYVICTOR CHERBULIEZ
Life was no jest and no holiday, it was no place for shams and self-deceptions.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIR
We have no use for illusions and self-deceptions on the way to our indispensable victory.
GEMS (?) OF GERMAN THOUGHTVARIOUS
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