deceiver vs impostor

impostor vs deceiver

deceiver and impostor both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
impostor: 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, imposter, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

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

Difference between deceiver and impostor

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