About The Word Dissimulation
Learn about the word Dissimulation to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Dissimulation definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
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 \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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Originator ‐ someone who creates…
- Elisha graves otis ‐ United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with…
- Tailgate ‐ a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading [v]…
- Simchat torah ‐ (Judaism) a Jewish holy day celebrated on the 22nd or 23rd of…
- Ripple mark ‐ one of a series of small ridges produced in sand by water currents…
- Hymenoxys grandiflora ‐ whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems…
- Multifariousness ‐ noticeable heterogeneity; "a diversity of possibilities"; "the…
- Sentiency ‐ the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;…
- Macro instruction ‐ a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions…
- Leanness ‐ the property of having…