dissimulation
[noun]
Synonyms: deceit, cunning, dissemblance, duplicity, guile

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Related Words: camouflaging, cloaking, disguising, dissembling, masking, concealing, hiding, secreting, feigning, pretending, pretense, shamming, hypocrisy, pharisaism, sanctimony

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

dissimulation noun. [dɪ,sɪmjʊ'leɪʃ(ǝ)n] LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin dissimulatio(n-), formed as DISSIMULATE: see -ATION.]
1. The action of dissembling; concealment of one's true nature, feelings, etc.; pretence, hypocrisy. Formerly also, an instance of this. LME.
■ Steele Simulation is a Pretence of what is not, and Dissimulation a Concealment of what is.
■ A. G. Gardiner I may..only be truthful because I haven't courage enough for dissimulation.
b. Disguised form. rare (Milton). Only in L17.
■ Milton Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared.

2. A flock of (small) birds. L15-L17.

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