deception vs magnification

magnification vs deception

deception and magnification both are nouns.

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

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
magnification: making to seem more important than it really is

Other hyponyms of deception include bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade, window dressing, exaggeration, 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)	magnification (noun)
the act of deceiving	the act of expanding something in apparent size
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	a photographic print that has been enlarged
a misleading falsehood	making to seem more important than it really is
	the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object

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