3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Self-deception \Self`-de*cep"tion\, n. Self-deceit. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: self-deception n : a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it [syn: {self-deceit}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 69 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-deception": airy nothing, autism, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, bubble, calculated deception, chimera, circumvention, conning, daydream, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, deluded belief, delusion, delusiveness, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, fallaciousness, fallacy, false belief, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, hoodwinking, ignis fatuus, illusion, kidding, mirage, misbelief, misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, outwitting, overreaching, phantasm, pipe dream, putting on, self-deceit, self-delusion, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, trick, trickiness, tricking, trip, vapor, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking, wrong impression
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