deception vs window dressing

window dressing vs deception

deception and window dressing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deception	Yes	No	No	No
window dressing	Yes	No	No	No

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

deception: a misleading falsehood
window dressing: a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

Other hyponyms of deception include bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade, 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)	window dressing (noun)
the act of deceiving	the decoration of shop windows
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
a misleading falsehood

Difference between deception and window dressing

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