Defenition of the word deception
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Defenition of the word deception
- The act or practice of deceiving.
- Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
- the act of deceiving
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a misleading falsehood
Synonyms for the word deception
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- cheating
- con
- conjuring trick
- deceit
- dishonesty
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- fraud
- illusion
- legerdemain
- lie
- magic
- magic trick
- misrepresentation
- pretext
- ruse
- sham
- trick
- trickery
Similar words in the deception
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- deception
- deception's
- deceptions
Hyponyms for the word deception
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- bill of goods
- blind
- bluff
- card trick
- cheat
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- delusion
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- equivocation
- evasion
- exaggeration
- facade
- fakery
- feigning
- four flush
- fraudulence
- guile
- half-truth
- hanky panky
- head game
- hocus-pocus
- humbug
- illusion
- impersonation
- imposture
- indirection
- jiggery-pokery
- magnification
- obscurantism
- overstatement
- prestidigitation
- pretence
- pretending
- pretense
- shenanigan
- simulation
- skulduggery
- skullduggery
- sleight of hand
- slickness
- snake oil
- snow job
- subterfuge
- take-in
- trickery
- wile
- window dressing
Hypernyms for the word deception
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- false statement
- falsehood
- falsification
- falsity
- misrepresentaation
- misrepresentation
- performance
- untruth
Antonyms for the word deception
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