About The Word Dissimulation

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Dissimulation

Dissimulation Meaning & Definition
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

\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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