deceiver vs obscurantist

obscurantist vs deceiver

deceiver and obscurantist both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
obscurantist: a person who is deliberately vague

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, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

deceiver (noun)	obscurantist (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who is deliberately vague

Difference between deceiver and obscurantist

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