self-delusion

  • 51chimera — Synonyms and related words: airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, brainchild, bubble, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eidolon, false belief, fancy, fantasque,… …

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  • 52daydream — Synonyms and related words: Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, airy nothing, autism, bad dream, be absent, bemusement, brown study, bubble, castle building, chimera, conceiving, daydreamer,… …

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  • 53deception — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, airy nothing, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, autism, befooling, bluff, bluffing, bubble, burial, burying, casuistry, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chimera, clouding, color, coloring,… …

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  • 54dereism — Synonyms and related words: airy nothing, alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame shifting, bubble, chimera, compensation, daydream, deception, decompensation, defense mechanism, deluded belief, delusion, dereistic… …

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  • 55dream — Synonyms and related words: Miss America, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, ace, ache, airy hope, airy nothing, aspiration, assume, autism, bad dream, bathing beauty, be absent, be afraid,… …

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  • 56dreamland — Synonyms and related words: Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never Never land, Neverland, New Atlantis,… …

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  • 57dreamworld — Synonyms and related words: airy nothing, autism, bubble, chimera, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, false belief, ignis fatuus, illusion, misbelief, misconception, pipe dream, self deceit,… …

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  • 58ignis fatuus — Synonyms and related words: airy nothing, autism, autoluminescence, backfire, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bioluminescence, blaze, bonfire, bubble, burning ghat, campfire, cathode luminescence, cheerful fire, chemicoluminescence,… …

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  • 59misbelief — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Arianism, Catharism, Ebionitism, Erastianism, Gnosticism, Jovinianism, Lollardy, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Monophysism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, Waldensianism, Wyclifism, airy nothing,… …

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  • 60misconception — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, airy nothing, autism, bubble, catachresis, chimera, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, distortion, dream, dream vision, dreamland,… …

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