self-deception
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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