deception vs pretence

pretence vs deception

deception and pretence both are nouns.

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

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

deception: the act of deceiving
pretence: 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, feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation, impersonation, imposture, obscurantism, bluff, four flush, take-in.

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

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

deception (noun)	pretence (noun)
the act of deceiving	the act of giving a false appearance
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	a false or unsupportable quality
a misleading falsehood	an artful or simulated semblance
	imaginative intellectual play
	pretending with intention to deceive

Difference between deception and pretence

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