deception vs evasion

evasion vs deception

deception and evasion both are nouns.

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

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
evasion: 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, equivocation.

deception (noun)	evasion (noun)
the act of deceiving	the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
a misleading falsehood	the deliberate act of failing to pay money
	a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Difference between deception and evasion

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