English-Finnish translations for self-deception

• itsepetos
  Itsepetos on meissä itsessämme. The self-deception is happening here.
  Minusta tuntuu usein, että meidän Venäjän-politiikkamme on onnistunut sekoitus petosta ja itsepetosta, emmekä edes tiedä tarkkaan, mihin petos päättyy ja mistä itsepetos alkaa. I often get the impression that our policy on Russia is a successful combination of deceit and self-deception, in which one is not quite sure where the deceit ends and self-deception begins.

Definition of self-deception

• The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious

Related words

• self-destruction
• self-defence
• self-deprivation
• self-determination
• self-destructive
• self-destructing
• self-designation
• self-defense
• self-deprecating