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concealment - 16 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | concealment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hiding, secrecy |
| Synonyms: | beard, blind, camouflage, cover, cover-up, covering, curtain, disguise, front, hideaway, mask, privacy, red herring*, secretion, smoke screen*, veil, dissimulation, fig leaf, hide-out, laundromat, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, wraps |
| Antonyms: | disclosure, exposition, revelation, showing, telling, divulgence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ambush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying in wait; concealed position |
| Synonyms: | camouflage, concealment, deception, hiding, lurking, pitfall, shelter, trap, trick*, ambuscade, ambushment, hiding place, waiting, waylaying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | camouflage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | beard*, blind, cloak, concealment, cover, deceit, front, guise, mask, masquerade, mimicry, paint, red herring*, screen, shade, shroud, veil, coverup, deceptive marking, dissimulation, faking, false appearance, masking, plain brown wrapper, protective coloring, smokescreen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cover-up |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attempt to conceal embarrassing or scandalous information |
| Synonyms: | burial*, camouflage, complicity, concealment, conspiracy, evasion, front, pretense, whitewash, closeting, disguising, dissimulation, hush-up, masking, placing under wraps, seal of secrecy, smoke-screen, veil of secrecy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, makeup for deception |
| Synonyms: | beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dress, facade, face, false front*, front*, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pseudonym, red herring*, screen, semblance, smoke screen*, trickery, veil, veneer, dissimulation, faking, fig leaf, get-up, pretentiousness, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eclipse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shadowing of the sun |
| Synonyms: | concealment, decline, diminution, extinction, shroud, veil, darkening, dimming, extinguishment, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, penumbra, shading |
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, segregation, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, monkhood, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, seclusiveness, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | mask |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false face, cover |
| Synonyms: | affectation, air*, appearance, aspect, beard*, blind, camouflage, cloak*, concealment, cover-up, disguise, facade, front, guise, hood, masquerade, pose, posture, pretense, pretext, screen, semblance, show*, simulation, veil*, veneer, visage, window dressing*, disguisement, dissembling, dissimulation, domino, fig leaf, put-on, visor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | privacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solitude, secrecy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude |
| Antonyms: | publicity, publicness, sociableness |
| Main Entry: | screen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection used in or as furniture, motion picture display |
| Synonyms: | awning, canopy, cloak, concealment, cover, covering, curtain, envelope, guard, hedge, mantle, mask, net, partition, security, shade, shelter, shield, shroud, veil, divider |
| Main Entry: | seclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, separation, shelter, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, seclusiveness, separateness, sequestration |
| Antonyms: | open, public |
| Main Entry: | pretending |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feigning |
| Synonyms: | acting, cheating, concealment, counterfeiting, covering, pretense, simulation, bluffing, dissembling, dissimulation, masking, shamming |
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, 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, circumvention |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hiding place |
| Synonyms: | asylum, camouflage, concealment, covert, defense, drop, front, guard, harbor, haven, port, protection, refuge, retreat, safety, sanctuary, screen, security, shelter, harborage |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | concealment, seclusion, secrecy, thickness, denseness, inscrutability |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding, enlightening |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | blindness, concealment, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, denseness, inscrutability, unawareness |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding, enlightening |
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