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Definition: Self-deceit |
Self-deceitNoun1. A misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-deceit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Synonym: Self-deceitSynonym: self-deception (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Self-deceit |
| English words defined with "self-deceit": Self-imposture. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Demosthenes | Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Self-deceit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-deceit" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-deceit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vetëmashtrim (self-deception, self-delusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | самоизмама (fallacy, self-delusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自已欺骗 (Self-deceived). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sebeklam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | önimádás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 각자 책략. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-deceitsay iluzie (delusion, fume, mare's nest, phantom, shade, vapor, vapour), autoînşelare. (various references) самообман (self-deception, self-delusion). (various references) samoobmana (self-deception, self-delusion). (various references) självbedrägeri (self- deception, self-delusion). (various references) kendini kandırma (self-deception). (various references) sự tự dối mình (self-deception, self-delusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-f-i-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: fleeciest. | |
-2 letters: deflects, deselect, selected. | |
-3 letters: celeste, clefted, deceits, deciles, defects, defiles, deflect, deletes, delicts, eeliest, elected, felsite, fileted, fleeced, fleeces, fleeted, lefties, liefest, sectile, sleeted, steeled, steelie, stifled. | |
-4 letters: ceiled, clefts, clifts, deceit, decile, defect, defies, defile, deices, delete, delfts, delict, delist, deltic, diesel, edicts, ediles, eldest, elects, elides, elites, felids, felted, fields. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-f-i-l-s-t" | |
+2 letters: chesterfield. | |
+3 letters: chesterfields, deceitfulness. | |
+5 letters: deceitfulnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 64 65 63 65 69 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100100 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - d e c e i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0064 0065 0063 0065 0069 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371787215707169717586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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