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[syn: deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dissimulation \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.
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Let love be without dissimulation. --Rom. xii. 9.
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Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and
arguments that he is not that he is. --Bacon.
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Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and
dissimulation a concealment of what is. --Tatler.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dissimulation
n 1: the act of deceiving [syn: deception, deceit,
dissembling, dissimulation]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissimulation":
Tartuffe, 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, whited sepulcher