Dissimulation Definition & Meaning

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Dissimulation

Dissimulation Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dissimulation? [n] the act of deceiving Synonyms \| Synonyms for Dissimulation: deceit \| deception \| dissembling Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dissimulation: cloaking \| concealing \| cunning \| deceit \| deception \| dissemblance \| dissembler \| dissembling \| dissimulator \| double-dealing \| duplicity \| feigning \| guile \| hiding \| hypocrisy \| lip server \| masking \| misrepresentation \| pharisaism \| pharisee \| pretense \| sanctimony \| secreting \| sham \| Tartuffe \| whited sepulcher See Also \| bluff \| cheat \| cheating \| chicanery \| delusion \| double-dealing \| duplicity \| fakery \| falsification \| feigning \| four flush \| guile \| head game \| illusion \| impersonation \| imposture \| indirection \| misrepresentaation \| obscurantism \| pretence \| pretending \| pretense \| shenanigan \| simulation \| trickery \| wile Dissimulation In Webster's Dictionary \Dissim`ula"tion\, n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. --Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. --Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. --Tatler.

Dissimulation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dissimulation?

[n] the act of deceiving

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dissimulation: deceit | deception | dissembling

Dissimulation In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*sim`u*la"tion\, n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F.
dissimulation.]
The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance;
concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

      Let love be without dissimulation.       --Rom. xii. 9.

      Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and
      arguments that he is not that he is.     --Bacon.

      Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and
      dissimulation a concealment of what is.  --Tatler.

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