deception vs fraudulence

fraudulence vs deception

deception and fraudulence both are nouns.

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

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
fraudulence: a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

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, equivocation, evasion.

deception (noun)	fraudulence (noun)
the act of deceiving	something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	the quality of being fraudulent
a misleading falsehood	a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

Difference between deception and fraudulence

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