Word Meanings - SELF-DECEPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Self-deceit.

INFATUATION
The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor.
FATUITY
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
SELF-DECEPTION
Self-deceit.
MADNESS
1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy. 2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly. Syn. -- Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See Insanity.
HALLUCINATION
The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement