'Deception' definitions:
Definition of 'deception'
(from WordNet)
noun
A misleading falsehood [syn: misrepresentation, deceit, deception]
noun
noun
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers [syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deception]
Definition of 'Deception'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud. [1913 Webster]
- 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]
Synonyms of 'deception'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Deception'
- Deceptibility,
- Deceptible,
- Deceptive,
- Deceptively,
- Deceptiveness,
- Deceptivity,
- Deceptive cadence,
- electronic deception,
- Self-deception,
- electronic imitative deception,
- electronic manipulative deception,
- electronic simulative deception,
- imitative electronic deception,
- manipulative electronic deception,
- simulative electronic deception