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deceit vs dissembling

dissembling vs deceit

deceit and dissembling both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
deceit Yes No No No
dissembling Yes No No No
As nouns, deceit and dissembling are synonyms defined as:
  • deceit and dissembling: the act of deceiving
Other synonyms of deceit include deception, dissimulation.
As nouns, dissembling is a hyponym of deceit; that is, dissembling is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deceit:
  • deceit: a misleading falsehood
  • dissembling: pretending with intention to deceive
Other hyponyms of deceit include bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade, window dressing, exaggeration, magnification, overstatement, snow job, feigning, pretence, pretense, blind, subterfuge, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, duplicity, fraudulence, equivocation, evasion.
deceit (noun) dissembling (noun)
the act of deceiving the act of deceiving
the quality of being fraudulent pretending with intention to deceive
a misleading falsehood
Difference between deceit and dissembling

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