deceiver vs imposter

imposter vs deceiver

deceiver and imposter both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
imposter: a person who makes deceitful pretenses

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, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

deceiver (noun)	imposter (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Difference between deceiver and imposter

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