About The Word Dissimulation
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Dissimulation
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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 \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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