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self-deception
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The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious
A desire that appears inconceivable
A false front or appearance, or the act of putting one up
The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are
The act or practice of suggesting thoughts to oneself
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Noun
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The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious
self-delusion
self-illusion
self-deceit
“The first half of the book is an introduction to evolutionary psychology and to theories of deception and
self-deception
.”
Noun
▲
A desire that appears inconceivable
dream
fantasy
fancy
daydream
delusion
pipe dream
wishful thinking
conceit
figment
illusion
whim
chimaera
UK
chimera
US
hallucination
phantasy
airy hope
false hope
fantasm
imagination
mirage
nonentity
phantasm
unreality
vision
castle in the air
castle in the sky
eggs in moonshine
empty wish
flight of fancy
flight of imagination
fool's paradise
golden dream
pie in the sky
unreal hope
castle in Spain
foolish expectation
irrational expectation
self-delusion
unrealistic expectation
unrealistic hope
unreasonable expectation
bubble
rainbow
speculation
vagary
misconception
fallacy
misapprehension
misbelief
falsehood
myth
falsity
error
untruth
image
false impression
mistaken impression
ignis fatuus
mistaken belief
misinterpretation
misunderstanding
misconstruction
mistake
optical illusion
oversight
lapse
figment of the imagination
mistaken idea
idealism
sophistry
deception
cloud-cuckoo-land
artifice
misimpression
confusion
misjudgement
misjudgment
invention
trip
seeming
sense
feeling
mockery
idea
sensation
false belief
make-believe
castles in the air
head trip
castles in Spain
reverie
apparition
fabrication
notion
miscalculation
phantom
aberration
misreading
fiction
nightmare
false notion
phantasmagoria
wrong idea
impression
visualization
US
phantasma
misconstruing
mental picture
visualisation
UK
smoke and mirrors
incomprehension
misknowledge
mix-up
conception
air castle
wraith
unrealizable dream
lie
heresy
mental image
phantasmagory
creation
conceptualization
US
misconstrual
wish
desire
imagining
whimsy
thought
misreckoning
conceptualisation
UK
superstition
fanciful notion
unfounded belief
irrational belief
confounding
fond hope
credulity
unorthodoxy
delirium
spectre
UK
specter
US
images
will-o'-the-wisp
wrong belief
pink elephants
vanity
virtual reality
dreaming
fable
fata morgana
concoction
false interpretation
improvisation
fault
misperception
caprice
picture
perception
wishes
stardust
conceiving
hope
utopia
envisioning
old wivesʼ tale
cognition
misappreciation
miscommunication
wrong end of the stick
apprehension
musing
semblance
transient phenomenon
short-lived phenomenon
power of invention
mind trip
fib
maya
story
mental vision
mental visualization
fantastic notion
fond hopes
cloud cuckoo land
product of someone's imagination
figment of imagination
concept
hunch
suspicion
belief
supposition
out-of-body experience
sequence of images
empty promise
end of the rainbow
jam tomorrow
kidology
plans
hopes
inkling
prospect
aspiration
sweven
apologue
ideal
muse
intimation
understanding
opinion
imago
ideality
fairy tale
fairy story
fake news
mind
trumped-up story
tall story
alternative fact
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cock and bull story
fictitious story
sneaking suspicion
fallaciousness
sophism
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ambiguity
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preconception
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perversion
prejudice
cavil
invalidity
solecism
elusion
quirk
paradox
deviation
faulty reasoning
unsound argument
non sequitur
poor prognosis
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A false front or appearance, or the act of putting one up
pretense
US
pretence
UK
acting
faking
feigning
simulation
act
pose
posing
posture
posturing
attitudinizing
simulacrum
play-acting
make-believe
putting on an act
front
show
facade
guise
masquerade
charade
façade
semblance
airs
disguise
affectation
playacting
sham
air
pretension
display
dissimulation
mien
fakery
attitude
role
mannerism
carriage
stand
put-on
false show
Noun
▲
The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are
make-believe
fantasy
daydreaming
delusion
illusion
fabrication
invention
dreaming
charade
pretence
UK
pretending
masquerade
disguise
dissimulation
fakery
pageant
playacting
pretense
US
pretension
pretentiousness
sham
fancy
imagination
unreality
play-acting
dream
fiction
nonsense
castles in the air
fairy tale
romancing
contrivance
imaginativeness
vision
ideation
visualization
US
thought
flight of fancy
imaginative faculty
reverie
visualisation
UK
daydream
imaginative power
pipe dream
castle in the air
creation of the brain
mental image
conception
mind's eye
castle in Spain
originality
creativity
speculation
inventiveness
creative thought
chimera
US
chimaera
UK
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The act or practice of suggesting thoughts to oneself
autosuggestion
autohypnosis
hypnosis
auto-suggestion
self-suggestion
self-hypnosis
power of suggestion
self-delusion
hypnotic suggestion
mesmerism
hypnotism
hypnotherapy
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