simulation vs deception

simulation and deception both are nouns.

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

As nouns, deception is a hypernym of simulation; that is, deception is a word with a broader meaning than simulation:

Other hypernyms of simulation include deceit, dissembling, dissimulation.

simulation (noun)	deception (noun)
the act of giving a false appearance	the act of deceiving
the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)	an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)	a misleading falsehood
(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program