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Self-deceit   /sɛlf-dəsˈit/   Listen
Self-deceit

noun
1.
A misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it.  Synonym: self-deception.






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"Self-deceit" Quotes from Famous Books



... his good hours and his silver in luxury and licentious ease:—no, he is the true slothful man, that does no good." And there is genuine insight as well as honesty and courage in his remonstrance with the self-love and appeal against the self-deceit of his countrymen, so prone to cry out on the cruelty of others, on the blood-thirstiness of Frenchmen and Spaniards, and to overlook the heavy-headed brutality of their own habitual indifference and neglect. Although the cruelty of penal laws be ...
— The Age of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne



Words linked to "Self-deceit" :   misconception, self-deception



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