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self-delusion
[ self-di-loo-zhuhn, self- ]
noun
- the act or fact of deluding oneself.
self-delusion
noun
- the act or state of deceiving or deluding oneself
Other Words From
- self-de·lud·ed [self, -di-, loo, -did, self-], adjective
- self-de·luding adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-delusion1
Example Sentences
Like Miller, Wolf suffers from the radical self-delusion that mistakes bonkers political views for uncommonly brave opinion.
It would be self-delusion of the first order to assume health reform won't be a central issue in 2014.
Republicans engaged in large and dangerous self-delusion after the 2010 elections.
Campaigns can often be breeding grounds for confidence bordering on self-delusion.
But his remarkable combination of grandiosity, self-delusion, and brazen, utter, shameless chutzpah keeps him coming back.
The subject of the moral reflections at the end is self-delusion in the particular form of sophisticated vanity.
Hypocrites are not profoundly acquainted with their own hearts, or with all the secret operations of a spirit of self-delusion.
The whole affair, into which by some extraordinary self-delusion you consider yourself privileged to obtrude, is very simple.
The self-delusion pleased him, and seemed to add the clinching argument to his resolution.
Everything, it seemed to Lee Randon, increased the position of self-delusion at the expense of what he felt to be reality.
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