Deception
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English
Noun
Deception (plural Deceptions)- An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.
Adjectives for Deception
palpable; gross; downright; swaggering; detestable; obvious; systematic; pious; venial; innocent; intentional; harmless; inevitable; economic; relative; facial; deliberate; refined; universal.
Verbs for Deception
apply—; avoid—; commit—; conceal—; devise—; dispose to—; expose—; fall into —; fear—; form—; imagine—; impose— upon; justify—; perform—; produce—; practice—; suspect—; unearth—; unfold—; —harms; —injures.
Synonyms for Deception
equivocation, lie, falsehood, fabrication, prevarication, trickery, duplicity, delusion, craft, cunning, dishonesty, fraud, deceitfulness, dissimulation.
Antonyms for Deception
candor, honesty, square-dealing, openness, simplicity, veracity, sincerity, truthfulness, frankness.
Thesaurus
knavery, manipulation, masking, masquerade, meretriciousness, mirage, misbelief, misconception, mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, ostentation, outward show, overreaching, pipe dream, playacting, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, putting away, representation, ride, rip-off, ruse, screening, secrecy, secretion, seeming, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, sell, semblance, sham, sharp practice, show, simulacrum, simulation, snow job, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spoof, spuriousness, stratagem, subterfuge, tergiversation, treachery, trick, trickery, trip, uncommunicativeness, vapor, varnish, wile, window dressing, wrong impression, acting, affectation, airy nothing, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, autism, befooling, bluff, bluffing, bubble, burial, burying, casuistry, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chimera, clouding, color, coloring, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, cunning, darkening, daydream, deceit, deceptiveness, defrauding, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dirt, disguise, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, dupery, duping, duplicity, equivocation, facade, face, fake, fakement, fakery, faking, false air, false belief, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, flam, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, guile, gulling, gyp, hallucination, hanky-panky, hiddenness, hiding, hoax, hoodwinking, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy, ignis fatuus, illusion, impose, imposture, indirection, interment, intrigue, invisibility,
Etymology
Past participle of Latin decipere "deceive" Gerund form of to deceive;
