English noun: deception |
| 1. | deception (communication) a misleading falsehood |
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| Synonyms | deceit, misrepresentation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | falsehood, falsity, untruth |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bill of goods, blind, dissembling, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, feigning, fraudulence, half-truth, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, humbug, jiggery-pokery, magnification, overstatement, pretence, pretense, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snake oil, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, window dressing |
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| 2. | deception (act) the act of deceiving |
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| Synonyms | deceit, dissembling, dissimulation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | falsification, misrepresentation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bluff, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, delusion, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, feigning, four flush, guile, head game, illusion, impersonation, imposture, indirection, obscurantism, pretence, pretending, pretense, shenanigan, simulation, take-in, trickery, wile |
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| 3. | deception (act) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers |
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| Synonyms | conjuration, conjuring trick, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| Broader (hypernym) | performance |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | card trick, prestidigitation, sleight of hand |
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