English > dissimulation: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | The act of deceiving / deceiving. |
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| Synonyms | deception, deceit, dissembling |
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| Narrower | bluff, four flush | The act of bluffing in poker |
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| cheat, cheating | A deception for profit to yourself |
| delusion, illusion, head game | The act of deluding |
| duplicity, double-dealing | Acting in bad faith |
| fakery | The act of faking / faking (or the product of faking / faking) |
| imposture, impersonation | pretending to be another person |
| indirection | deceitful action that is not straightforward |
| obscurantism | A deliberate act intended to make something obscure |
| pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning | The act of giving a false / false / false appearance |
| take-in | The act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone |
| trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
| Broader | falsification, misrepresentation | A willful perversion of facts |
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| Spanish | disimulación, engaño, fingimiento, fraude |
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| Catalan | dissimulació, engany, fingiment |
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| Verbs | dissimulate | hide (feelings) from other people |
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