Dissimulation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dissimulation \dis*sim`u*la"tion\, n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F.
     dissimulation.]
     The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance;
     concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
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           Let love be without dissimulation.       --Rom. xii. 9.
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           Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and
           arguments that he is not that he is.     --Bacon.
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           Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and
           dissimulation a concealment of what is.  --Tatler.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dissimulation
       n : the act of deceiving [syn: {deception}, {deceit}, {dissembling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissimulation":
     Tartuffe, cloaking, concealing, cunning, deceit, deception,
     dissemblance, dissembler, dissembling, dissimulator,
     double-dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy,
     lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee,
     pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham, whited sepulcher