Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The deluding of one's self, or delusion respecting one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
deluding oneself , or the state of being sodeluded .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We all diet sometimes and we all need a spankingly good line in self-delusion, which is, let's be honest, the primary quality necessary for entering into a fast and excessive weight-loss regime.
Our preoccupation with dieting has become a national neurosis | Louise Foxcroft 2012
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But self-delusion is the quintessential attribute of all dictators.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Unless Americans wake-up to their own self-delusion, one of the nation's two great parties will knowingly nominate a computer generated hologram of a candidate whose only demonstrated conviction is a desire to become president.
Charles Redfern: A Pre-fab Candidate With Pre-fab Pronouncements for a Pre-fab Country Charles Redfern 2012
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You look at life for women today, it is the very definition of personal fantasy, of self-delusion, and of a narcissism so acute that to read through your average issue of a glamorous women's magazine is not that different from reading a porn magin fact, there are more adoring/self-hating naked female images in the women's mag.
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It took searing depression to break the self-delusion in the 1930s.
The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton 2011
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It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.
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The cruelty is unpleasant, but the self-delusion is what really takes the breath away.
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Too bad for the rest of us that the principles are dangerously divorced from reality, their idealism is so inconsistently applied as to raise questions about their sincerity, and their heroic pose reflects either cynical misrepresentation or self-delusion.
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The cruelty is unpleasant, but the self-delusion is what really takes the breath away.
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It is powerful, but it is deluded and self-delusion runs deep in the US.
The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton 2011
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