self-deception

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

English deception

English self-deception

From self- + deception.

Noun

self-deception (usually uncountable, plural self-deceptions)

1. The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.

   Synonyms: self-deceit, self-delusion

Related terms

• self-deceive
• self-deceiver
• self-deceptive

Translations

fooling oneself

• Bulgarian: самоизмама (bg) f (samoizmama)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自我欺騙 / 自我欺骗 (zìwǒ qīpiàn)

• Czech: sebeklam m
• Estonian: enesepettus
• Finnish: itsepetos (fi)
• French: auto-illusion (fr) f
• German: Selbsttäuschung (de) f, Selbstbetrug (de) m
• Greek: αυταπάτη (el) f (aftapáti)
• Hindi: आत्मवंचना f (ātmavañcnā)
• Icelandic: sjálfsblekking f
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಅತ್ಮವಂಚನೆ (kn) (atmavañcane)
• Macedonian: самозалажување n (samozalažuvanje), самоизмама f (samoizmama)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: autoenganação f
• Romanian: autoamăgire (ro) f
• Russian: самообма́н (ru) m (samoobmán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самообмана f

  Latin: samoobmana (sh) f

• Spanish: autoengaño (es) m
• Swedish: självbedrägeri n