deception vs dissembling

deception and dissembling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deception	Yes	No	No	No
dissembling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, deception and dissembling are synonyms defined as:

deception and dissembling: the act of deceiving

Other synonyms of deception include deceit, dissimulation.

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
dissembling: pretending with intention to deceive

Other hyponyms of deception include bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade, window dressing, exaggeration, magnification, overstatement, snow job, feigning, pretence, pretense, blind, subterfuge, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, duplicity, fraudulence, equivocation, evasion.

deception (noun)	dissembling (noun)
the act of deceiving	the act of deceiving
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	pretending with intention to deceive
a misleading falsehood

deception vs dissembling

deception and dissembling both are nouns.

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