deception vs feigning

feigning vs deception

deception and feigning both are nouns.

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

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

deception: the act of deceiving
feigning: the act of giving a false appearance

Other hyponyms of deception include fakery, indirection, chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile, double-dealing, duplicity, cheat, cheating, delusion, head game, illusion, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation, impersonation, imposture, obscurantism, bluff, four flush, take-in.

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
feigning: 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, dissembling, pretence, pretense, blind, subterfuge, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, duplicity, fraudulence, equivocation, evasion.

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

Difference between deception and feigning

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