self-deception

Noun

Meaning

Self-deceit.

Alternative names

self deception

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Examples

Although Die Meistersinger main is a comedy, it also elucidates Wagner's ideas on the place of music in society, on renunciation of Wille ( Will ), and on the solace that music can bring in a world full of Wahn main (delusion, folly, self-deception). Source: Internet

Blackburn writes that he finished Polkinghorne's books in "despair at humanity's capacity for self-deception." Source: Internet

And that, as Barak said, there’s a difference between deception and self-deception. Source: Internet

But the good news is that you Cancerians will have an expansive capacity to dissolve and rise above self-deception in the coming weeks—and will therefore be able to call on a great deal of courage. Source: Internet

ISBN 0-87975-435-4 Outside of parapsychology, telepathy is generally explained as the result of fraud, self-delusion and/or self-deception and not as a paranormal power. Source: Internet

It was bluffing that led to the crushing of Egypt in 1967, because of the mass self-deception exercised by leaders and followers alike ever since the non-existent 'Stalingrad which was Port Said' in 1956." Source: Internet

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