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self-delusions

self-delusions is the plural of self-delusion.

Meaning of self-delusion

Noun

self-delusion (countable and uncountable, plural self-delusions)

  1. The act of deluding oneself, or the state of being so deluded.
    • This self-delusion is even more the case with Trotsky, whose bloodstained intolerance is generally passed over because the 1960s student generation pretended then, and pretends still, that Trotsky was in some way a freedom-loving, Gulag-free alternative to Stalin.2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    self-deception

Questions about self-delusions

What is self-delusions the plural of?
Self-delusions is the plural of self-delusion.

Words near self-delusions in the dictionary

  1. self-deliver
  2. self-delivered
  3. self-delivering
  4. self-delivers
  5. self-delusion
  6. self-delusions
  7. self-denial
  8. self-denials
  9. self-denier
  10. self-deniers
  11. self-denigrating

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