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Meaning of DECEPTION

Pronunciation:  di'sepshun

WordNet Dictionary
  1. [n]  an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
  2. [n]  the act of deceiving
  3. [n]  a misleading falsehood

DECEPTION is a 9 letter word that starts with D.


 Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deceit, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, misrepresentation, trick
 See Also: blind, bluff, card trick, cheat, cheating, chicanery, delusion, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicity, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, fakery, false statement, falsehood, falsification, falsity, feigning, feigning, four flush, fraudulence, guile, half-truth, hanky panky, head game, hocus-pocus, impersonation, imposture, indirection, jiggery-pokery, magnification, misrepresentaation, obscurantism, overstatement, performance, prestidigitation, pretence, pretence, pretending, pretense, pretense, shenanigan, simulation, skulduggery, skullduggery, sleight of hand, slickness, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, trickery, untruth, wile, window dressing



Webster's 1913 Dictionary
decipere, deceptum. See {Deceive}.]
1. The act of deceiving or misleading. --South.

2. The state of being deceived or misled.

         There is one thing relating either to the action or
         enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to
         deception.                            --South.

3. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false
   representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.

         There was of course room for vast deception.

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.

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