deception vs half-truth

half-truth vs deception

deception and half-truth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deception	Yes	No	No	No
half-truth	Yes	No	No	No

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
half-truth: a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead

Other hyponyms of deception include bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, 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, evasion.

deception (noun)	half-truth (noun)
the act of deceiving	a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
a misleading falsehood

Difference between deception and half-truth

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