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casuistry

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Main Entry: casuistry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overgeneral reasoning

Synonyms:

chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick
Main Entry: delusion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misconception, misbelief

Synonyms:

apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision
Notes: allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion
hallucination is from disturbed sensory perceptions; delusion is from disturbed thinking
an illusion is an image or conception of something actual or real that presents itself to the mind in an abnormal or distorted manner; a delusion is a false belief about oneself or other people that persists despite its being at variance with the facts

Antonyms:

actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth
Main Entry: equivocation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance of an issue

Synonyms:

ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity, equivocality, evasion, fallacy, fib, fibbing, hedging, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, quibbling routine, run-around, shuffling, song and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, tergiversation, waffle

Antonyms:

directness, facing, meeting
Main Entry: fallacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illusion, misconception

Synonyms:

aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth

Antonyms:

certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth
Main Entry: hypocrisy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceitfulness, pretense

Synonyms:

affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth
Main Entry: trick
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceit

Synonyms:

ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile

Antonyms:

frankness, honesty
Main Entry: sophistry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception

Synonyms:

ambiguity, casuistry, fallacy, inconsistency, paralogism, paralogy, trickery
Main Entry: pharisaism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypocrisy

Synonyms:

affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud*, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, two-facedness, unctuousness
Main Entry: phoniness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypocrisy

Synonyms:

affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud*, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, two-facedness, unctuousness
Main Entry: sanctimoniousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypocrisy

Synonyms:

affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud*, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, two-facedness, unctuousness
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