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Deception
| Deception Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Deception?
[n] an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
[n] the act of deceiving
[n] a misleading falsehood
Synonyms | Synonyms for Deception: conjuration |
conjuring trick |
deceit |
deceit |
dissembling |
dissimulation |
illusion |
legerdemain |
magic |
magic trick |
misrepresentation |
trick
Related Terms | Find terms related to Deception: acting |
affectation |
airy nothing |
appearance |
artifice |
attitudinizing |
autism |
befooling |
bluff |
bluffing |
bubble |
burial |
burying |
casuistry |
cheat |
cheating |
chicane |
chicanery |
chimera |
clouding |
color |
coloring |
concealedness |
concealment |
covering |
covering up |
covertness |
cunning |
darkening |
daydream |
deceit |
deceptiveness |
defrauding |
deluded belief |
delusion |
dereism |
dirt |
disguise |
dishonesty |
dissemblance |
dissembling |
dissimulation |
double-dealing |
dream |
dream vision |
dreamland |
dreamworld |
dupery |
duping |
duplicity |
equivocation |
facade |
face |
fake |
fakement |
fakery |
faking |
false air |
false belief |
false front |
false show |
falsity |
feigning |
feint |
flam |
four-flushing |
fraud |
front |
gilt |
gloss |
guile |
gulling |
gyp |
hallucination |
hanky-panky |
hiddenness |
hiding |
hoax |
hoodwinking |
humbug |
humbuggery |
hypocrisy |
ignis fatuus |
illusion |
impose |
imposture |
indirection |
interment |
intrigue |
invisibility |
knavery |
manipulation |
masking |
masquerade |
meretriciousness |
mirage |
misbelief |
misconception |
mystification |
obscuration |
obscurement |
occultation |
ostentation |
outward show |
overreaching |
pipe dream |
playacting |
pose |
posing |
posture |
pretense |
pretension |
pretext |
putting away |
representation |
ride |
rip-off |
ruse |
screening |
secrecy |
secretion |
seeming |
self-deceit |
self-deception |
self-delusion |
sell |
semblance |
sham |
sharp practice |
show |
simulacrum |
simulation |
snow job |
sophism |
sophistry |
speciousness |
spoof |
spuriousness |
stratagem |
subterfuge |
tergiversation |
treachery |
trick |
trickery |
trip |
uncommunicativeness |
vapor |
varnish |
wile |
window dressing |
wrong impression
See Also | blind |
bluff |
card trick |
cheat |
cheating |
chicanery |
delusion |
dissembling |
double-dealing |
duplicity |
duplicity |
equivocation |
evasion |
exaggeration |
facade |
fakery |
false statement |
falsehood |
falsification |
falsity |
feigning |
feigning |
four flush |
fraudulence |
guile |
half-truth |
hanky panky |
head game |
hocus-pocus |
impersonation |
imposture |
indirection |
jiggery-pokery |
magnification |
misrepresentaation |
obscurantism |
overstatement |
performance |
prestidigitation |
pretence |
pretence |
pretending |
pretense |
pretense |
shenanigan |
simulation |
skulduggery |
skullduggery |
sleight of hand |
slickness |
snow job |
subterfuge |
trickery |
trickery |
untruth |
wile |
window dressing
Deception In Webster's Dictionary
\De*cep"tion\, n. [F. d['e]ception, L. deceptio, fr.
decipere, deceptum. See {Deceive}.]
1. The act of deceiving or misleading. --South.
2. The state of being deceived or misled.
There is one thing relating either to the action or
enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to
deception. --South.
3. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false
representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
There was of course room for vast deception.
--Motley.
Syn: {Deception}, {Deceit}, {Fraud}, {Imposition}.
Usage: Deception usually refers to the act, and deceit to the
habit of the mind; hence we speak of a person as
skilled in deception and addicted to deceit. The
practice of deceit springs altogether from design, and
that of the worst kind; but a deception does not
always imply aim and intention. It may be undesigned
or accidental. An imposition is an act of deception
practiced upon some one to his annoyance or injury; a
fraud implies the use of stratagem, with a view to
some unlawful gain or advantage.
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