Self-deception

Domain	Title
Books	Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception (reference) Kierkegaard's philosophy : self-deception and cowardice in the present age (reference) Vital Lies Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception (reference) The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty (reference) Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Historic Usage: Self-deception

Usage Frequency: Self-deception

"Self-deception" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Self-deception" is used about 28 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)

Modern Translations: Self-deception

Language		Translations for "self-deception"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vetëmashtrim (self-deceit, self-delusion). (various references)

Chinese		自欺 (Self-delusion). (various references)

Finnish		itsepetos. (various references)

French		aveuglement. (various references)

German		selbsttäuschung, selbstbetrug (self deception). (various references)

Greek		αυταπάτη (delusion, disillusion, hallucination, illusion). (various references)

Hungarian		önámítás (fond delusion, self-delusion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		自己欺瞞 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じ�"ぎま�". (various references)

Manx		hene-volley. (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-deceptionsay

Russian		самообман (self-deceit, self-delusion). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		samoobmana (self-deceit, self-delusion). (various references)

Spanish		engaño de sí mismo (self-delusion). (various references)

Turkish		kendini kandırma (self-deceit). (various references)

Ukranian		самообман (self abuse, self-delusion). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tự dối mình (self-deceit, self-delusion). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Self-deception

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-p-s-t"
	-2 letters: deflections.
	-3 letters: centipedes, deceptions, defections, deflection, depletions, diplotenes, fieldstone, pestilence, telescoped.
	-4 letters: centipede, deception, defection, deletions, denticles, depletion, diplotene, elections, flections, fleeciest, inflected, inspected, lepidotes, nosepiece, potencies, sectioned, selection, splenetic, stenciled, telescope, toepieces.
	-5 letters: centiles, cineoles, closeted, codeines, coleseed, confides, declines, defences, deflects, deletion, denticle, depletes, deselect, despotic, diplonts, eclipsed, election, enclosed, enlisted, enlistee.
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Alternative Orthography: Self-deception

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 64 65 63 65 70 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100100 01100101 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#100 &#101 &#99 &#101 &#112 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0064 0065 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Error	Illusion, delusion; snare; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-decit, self-deception; mists of error.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You know, your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, match only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	Ultimately, when stubborn historical facts had dispersed all intoxicating effects of self-deception, this form of Socialism ended in a miserable fit of the blues. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.86%	26	68,323
Adjective (general or positive)	7.14%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	28	N/A

Self-deception

Definition: Self-deception

Self-deception

Noun

Synonym: Self-deception

Synonyms within Context: Self-deception

Error

Modern Usage: Self-deception

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Commercial Usage: Self-deception

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Historic Usage: Self-deception

Communist Manifesto

Usage Frequency: Self-deception

Modern Translations: Self-deception

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Anagrams: Self-deception

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Alternative Orthography: Self-deception

53 65 6C 66 2D 64 65 63 65 70 74 69 6F 6E

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0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0064 0065 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 006F 006E

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