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deception - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: deception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misleading; being dishonest
Synonyms: betrayal, blarney*, cheat, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dirt, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job*, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trumpery, untruth, beguilement, boondoggle, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, deceptiveness, defraudation, disinformation, dissimulation, dupery, fast one, fraudulence, hokum, trickiness
Antonyms: frankness, honesty, honor, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness, trustworthiness
Main Entry: deception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick
Synonyms: artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game*, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash*, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive*, lie, malarkey*, mare's-nest, pretext, ride*, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job*, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash*, wile, wrinkle*
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
Main Entry: casuistry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overgeneral reasoning
Synonyms: chicanery, deception, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, sophism, sophistry, trick, deceptiveness, oversubtleness, speciousness, spuriousness
Main Entry: charade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretense
Synonyms: deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, parody, pretension, travesty, trick, pantomime, pretentiousness, put-on
Main Entry: con
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick
Synonyms: bluff, cheat, crime, deception, double-cross, dupe, fraud, graft, mockery, swindle, take in, gold brick
Antonyms: honesty, truthfulness
Main Entry: counterfeit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fake, forgery
Synonyms: actor, bogus*, bum, copy, deceit, deception, dummy, facsimile, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, imitation, imposture, phony, pseudo, reproduction, sell*, sham, junque, put-on, simulacrum
Antonyms: reality, real thing
Main Entry: decoy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bait, trap
Synonyms: attraction, beard*, blind, booster, camouflage, catch, chicanery, come-on, deception, enticement, facade, fake, front, imitation, inducement, lure, plant, pretense, sitting duck*, snare, stick, stool pigeon*, temptation, trick, trickery, allurement, blow off*, chicane, drawing card, ensnarement, inveiglement, nark, seducement, shill, stoolie
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: double-dealing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: betrayal, cheating
Synonyms: chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play*, fraud, hanky-panky*, hypocrisy, mendacity, treachery, trickery, two-timing, bad faith, chicane, fourberie, perfidy, sharp practice
Antonyms: honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness
Main Entry: equivocation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance of an issue
Synonyms: ambiguity, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, delusion, distortion, double entendre, double talk, duplicity, evasion, fallacy, fib, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, run-around, song*, song and dance*, sophistry, stall, stonewall*, waffle*, amphibology, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double meaning, doubtfulness, equivocality, fibbing, hedging, quibbling routine, shuffling, speciousness, spuriousness, tergiversation
Antonyms: facing, meeting, directness
Main Entry: fake
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imposter, copy
Synonyms: actor, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick, bluffer, faker, four-flusher, gold brick, junque, put-on
Antonyms: original, reality
Main Entry: fallacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illusion, misconception
Synonyms: aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, delusion, deviation, equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, falsehood, flaw, heresy, inconsistency, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, subterfuge, untruth, deceptiveness, elusion, erroneousness, faultiness, illogicality, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, non sequitur, speciousness
Antonyms: certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth
Main Entry: falsehood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: guile
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: slyness, cleverness
Synonyms: artifice, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, dirty work*, dishonesty, double-cross*, duplicity, foul play*, run-around*, ruse, stab in the back*, treachery, trickery, artfulness, craftiness, dirty dealing, dirty trick, dissemblance, dissimulation, jive*, sellout, sharp practice, trickiness, wiliness
Antonyms: artlessness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, naivety, openness
Main Entry: hanky-panky
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: monkey business
Synonyms: amour, chicanery, dalliance, deception, dirty pool, double-dealing, fling, flirtation, fraud, liaison, love affair, mischief, monkey business*, romance, shenanigans*, skullduggery*, subterfuge, trickery, chicane, devilry, fooling around, fourberie, funny business, funny business, hankie-pankie, hokey-pokey, knavery, machinations, sexual activity, sharp practice
Antonyms: faithfulness, honesty
Main Entry: hoax
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick
Synonyms: cheat, cock-and-bull story*, con*, con game*, crock*, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, fib, flimflam*, fraud, gimmick, gyp*, humbug*, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job*, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper*, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, hooey, put-on
Main Entry: hocus-pocus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sleight of hand
Synonyms: abracadabra*, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam*, fraud, gibberish, hoax, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, monkey business, mumbo jumbo*, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, open sesame*, rigmarole*, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery, conjuring, gobbledegook*, hocus, magic words, mummery, mystification, occultism
Antonyms: reality, truth
Main Entry: hypocrisy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceitfulness, pretense
Synonyms: affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing, duplicity, falsity, fraud, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, quackery, bad faith, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness
Antonyms: honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth, forthrightness
Main Entry: illusion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: false appearance; false belief
Synonyms: apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus*, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream*, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality
Antonyms: certainty, event, fact, reality, truth
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