chicanery vs dissimulation

chicanery and dissimulation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chicanery	Yes	No	No	No
dissimulation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dissimulation is a hypernym of chicanery; that is, dissimulation is a word with a broader meaning than chicanery:

chicanery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
dissimulation: the act of deceiving

Other hypernyms of chicanery include deceit, deception, dissembling.

chicanery (noun)	dissimulation (noun)
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)	the act of deceiving