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Definition of Deception
1. Noun. A misleading falsehood.
Specialized synonyms: Bill Of Goods, Humbug, Snake Oil, Half-truth, Facade, Window Dressing, Exaggeration, Magnification, Overstatement, Snow Job, Dissembling, Feigning, Pretence, Pretense, Blind, Subterfuge, Hanky Panky, Hocus-pocus, Jiggery-pokery, Skulduggery, Skullduggery, Slickness, Trickery, Duplicity, Fraudulence, Equivocation, Evasion
Generic synonyms: Falsehood, Falsity, Untruth
Derivative terms: Deceive, Misrepresent, Misrepresent
2. Noun. The act of deceiving.
Generic synonyms: Falsification, Misrepresentation
Specialized synonyms: Fakery, Indirection, Chicane, Chicanery, Guile, Shenanigan, Trickery, Wile, Double-dealing, Duplicity, Cheat, Cheating, Delusion, Head Game, Illusion, Feigning, Pretence, Pretending, Pretense, Simulation, Impersonation, Imposture, Obscurantism, Bluff, Four Flush, Take-in
Derivative terms: Deceive, Deceive, Dissimulate
3. Noun. An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.
Generic synonyms: Performance
Specialized synonyms: Card Trick, Prestidigitation, Sleight Of Hand
Derivative terms: Illusionist, Magical, Magician
Definition of Deception
1. n. The act of deceiving or misleading.
Definition of Deception
1. Noun. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deception
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Deception
1. The act of deceiving or the fact or condition of being deceived. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deception
Literary usage of Deception
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"То de- criée), and both imply the act of deceiving; with this difference, that
the tlt-cril is practised from an expressly bad motive, but deception may be ..."
2. Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow (1900)
"VI In this review of the types of deception I have made no mention of such devices
as the gaining of one's confidence for selfish ends, preying upon ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"A FUNDAMENTAL distinction necessary to understand how deception is carried ...
We interpret the unknown by the known; one type of deception occurs when this ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1838)
"Deception. A TALE. BY MRS. ABDY. MRS. CHARLTON soon introduced me to her father, Mr.
Wickham; she had not exaggerated when she told me that he was a truly ..."
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