deceit vs feigning

feigning vs deceit

deceit and feigning both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deceit	Yes	No	No	No
feigning	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, feigning is a hyponym of deceit; that is, feigning is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deceit:

deceit: the act of deceiving
feigning: the act of giving a false appearance

Other hyponyms of deceit include fakery, indirection, chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile, double-dealing, duplicity, cheat, cheating, delusion, head game, illusion, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation, impersonation, imposture, obscurantism, bluff, four flush, take-in.

As nouns, feigning is a hyponym of deceit; that is, feigning is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deceit:

deceit: a misleading falsehood
feigning: 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, dissembling, pretence, pretense, blind, subterfuge, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, duplicity, fraudulence, equivocation, evasion.

deceit (noun)	feigning (noun)
the act of deceiving	the act of giving a false appearance
the quality of being fraudulent	pretending with intention to deceive
a misleading falsehood

Difference between deceit and feigning

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