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English

Past participle of decipere "deceive"

Noun

  1. Gerund form of to deceive; tricking someone into believing a lie.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Deception \De*cep"tion\, n. [F. d['e]ception, L. deceptio, fr.
decipere, deceptum. See Deceive.]
1. The act of deceiving or misleading. --South.
[1913 Webster]

2. The state of being deceived or misled.
[1913 Webster]

There is one thing relating either to the action or
enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to
deception. --South.
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3. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false
representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
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There was of course room for vast deception.
--Motley.

Syn: Deception, Deceit, Fraud, Imposition.

Usage: Deception usually refers to the act, and deceit to the
habit of the mind; hence we speak of a person as
skilled in deception and addicted to deceit. The
practice of deceit springs altogether from design, and
that of the worst kind; but a deception does not
always imply aim and intention. It may be undesigned
or accidental. An imposition is an act of deception
practiced upon some one to his annoyance or injury; a
fraud implies the use of stratagem, with a view to
some unlawful gain or advantage.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet deception
n 1: a misleading falsehood [syn: misrepresentation, deceit]
2: the act of deceiving [syn: deceit, dissembling, dissimulation]
3: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
[syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic,
legerdemain, conjuration, illusion]
Moby Dictionary
acting , affectation , airy nothing , appearance , artifice ,
attitudinizing , autism , befooling , bluff , bluffing , bubble , burial ,
burying , casuistry , cheat , cheating , chicane , chicanery , chimera ,
clouding , color , coloring , concealedness , concealment , covering ,
covering up , covertness , cunning , darkening , daydream , deceit ,
deceptiveness , defrauding , deluded belief , delusion , dereism , dirt ,
disguise , dishonesty , dissemblance , dissembling , dissimulation ,
double-dealing , dream , dream vision , dreamland , dreamworld , dupery ,
duping , duplicity , equivocation , facade , face , fake , fakement ,
fakery , faking , false air , false belief , false front , false show ,
falsity , feigning , feint , flam , four-flushing , fraud , front , gilt ,
gloss , guile , gulling , gyp , hallucination , hanky-panky , hiddenness ,
hiding , hoax , hoodwinking , humbug , humbuggery , hypocrisy ,
ignis fatuus , illusion , impose , imposture , indirection , interment ,
intrigue , invisibility , knavery , manipulation , masking , masquerade ,
meretriciousness , mirage , misbelief , misconception , mystification ,
obscuration , obscurement , occultation , ostentation , outward show ,
overreaching , pipe dream , playacting , pose , posing , posture ,
pretense , pretension , pretext , putting away , representation , ride ,
rip-off , ruse , screening , secrecy , secretion , seeming , self-deceit ,
self-deception , self-delusion , sell , semblance , sham ,
sharp practice , show , simulacrum , simulation , snow job , sophism ,
sophistry , speciousness , spoof , spuriousness , stratagem ,
subterfuge , tergiversation , treachery , trick , trickery , trip ,
uncommunicativeness , vapor , varnish , wile , window dressing ,
wrong impression


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