deception vs equivocation

equivocation vs deception

deception and equivocation both are nouns.

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

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
equivocation: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

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

deception (noun)	equivocation (noun)
the act of deceiving	falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	intentionally vague or ambiguous
a misleading falsehood	a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Difference between deception and equivocation

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