self-delusion in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for self-delusion in the English»Spanish Dictionary

self-delusion [Am ˈˌsɛlf dəˈluʒən, Brit] N U or C

self-delusion

autoengaño m

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I see self-delusion as something we all do to cope with the reality of life.

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There has been a cosy self-delusion that rising debt is largely benign because it is merely money that society owes to itself.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk

It is a figurative reference to the kind of self-delusion that results from clinging to an experience and making a conceptual nest out of it for oneself.

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That combination of media self-selection and informational self-delusion has proven a powerful and sometimes damaging one for conservatives.

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Luckily, not every act today subscribes to willful showbiz self-delusion, aiming for their 15 minutes.

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Its signal talent as a soccer country is self-delusion.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Critics attribute psychic powers to intentional trickery or to self-delusion.

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Was there some relationship between the franchisees' naivete, perhaps even their willful self-delusion, and their terrible taste?

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As often as not, an inability to communicate and a capacity for self-delusion stoke the characters' misery.

www.independent.ie

But the addict, with his or her genius for self-delusion, will have built from a lifetime's lies thick walls of denial.

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