deceiver vs dissimulator

dissimulator vs deceiver

deceiver and dissimulator both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deceiver	Yes	No	No	No
dissimulator	Yes	No	No	No

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
dissimulator: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

Other hyponyms of deceiver include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

deceiver (noun)	dissimulator (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

Difference between deceiver and dissimulator

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