deceit vs pretence

pretence vs deceit

deceit and pretence both are nouns.

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

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

deceit: the act of deceiving
pretence: 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, feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation, impersonation, imposture, obscurantism, bluff, four flush, take-in.

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

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

deceit (noun)	pretence (noun)
the act of deceiving	the act of giving a false appearance
the quality of being fraudulent	a false or unsupportable quality
a misleading falsehood	an artful or simulated semblance
	imaginative intellectual play
	pretending with intention to deceive

Difference between deceit and pretence

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