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Definition of Self-deception
1. Noun. A misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it.
Definition of Self-deception
1. Noun. The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-deception
Literary usage of Self-deception
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"The last remark is a strange one, from a man of his sagacity; but it was part of
the too- willing self-deception which he practised, to justify him in his ..."
2. Hamlet: An Historical and Comparative Study by Elmer Edgar Stoll (1919)
"It was Shakespeare, not Hamlet, who did this; but in showing that, we have hardly
touched upon the problem of Hamlet's self-deception, which is supposed to ..."
3. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"The last remark is a strange one, from a man of his sagacity; but it was part of
the too-willing self-deception which he practised, to justify him in his ..."
4. The Book of Were-wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)
"... How Produced—Salves—The Story of Lucius—self-deception. WHAT I have related
from the chronicles of antiquity, or from the traditional lore of the people ..."
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