Meaning of DISSIMULATION
| Pronunciation: | | di`simyu'leyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the act of deceiving |
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| | Synonyms: | | deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| | See Also: | | bluff, cheat, cheating, chicanery, delusion, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, falsification, feigning, four flush, guile, head game, illusion, impersonation, imposture, indirection, misrepresentaation, obscurantism, pretence, pretending, pretense, shenanigan, simulation, trickery, wile | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*sim`u*la"tion\, n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F.
dissimulation.]
The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance;
concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
Let love be without dissimulation. --Rom. xii. 9.
Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and
arguments that he is not that he is. --Bacon.
Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and
dissimulation a concealment of what is. --Tatler.
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| | Related Terms: | | cloaking, concealing, cunning, deceit, deception, dissemblance, dissembler, dissembling, dissimulator, double-dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy, lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee, pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham, Tartuffe, whited sepulcher |
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