DISSIMULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissimulation mean? 

• DISSIMULATION (noun)
  The noun DISSIMULATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of deceiving

  Familiarity information: DISSIMULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSIMULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of deceiving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation

Hypernyms ("dissimulation" is a kind of...):

falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissimulation"):

fakery (the act of faking (or the product of faking))

indirection (deceitful action that is not straightforward)

chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile (the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them))

double-dealing; duplicity (acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another)

cheat; cheating (a deception for profit to yourself)

delusion; head game; illusion (the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas)

feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)

impersonation; imposture (pretending to be another person)

obscurantism (a deliberate act intended to make something obscure)

bluff; four flush (the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards)

take-in (the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone)

Derivation:

dissimulate (hide (feelings) from other people)

 Context examples 

You will realise that among your many talents dissimulation finds no place, and that if you had shared my secret you would never have been able to impress Smith with the urgent necessity of his presence, which was the vital point of the whole scheme.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)