deception

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noun

1. an illusory feat;
considered magical by naive observers
• Syn:
magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain,
conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion
• Derivationally related forms:
illusionist (for: illusion), magical (for: magic), magician (for: magic)
• Hypernyms:
performance
• Hyponyms:
card trick, prestidigitation, sleight of hand
2. a misleading falsehood
• Syn:
misrepresentation, deceit
• Derivationally related forms:
deceive, misrepresent (for: misrepresentation)
• Hypernyms:
falsehood, falsity, untruth
• Hyponyms:
bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade,
window dressing, exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, snow job, pretense,
pretence, feigning, dissembling, subterfuge, blind, trickery,
hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery,
fraudulence, duplicity, evasion, equivocation
3. the act of deceiving
• Syn:
deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
• Derivationally related forms:
dissimulate (for: dissimulation), deceive
• Hypernyms:
falsification, misrepresentation
• Hyponyms:
fakery, indirection, trickery, chicanery, chicane,
guile, wile, shenanigan, duplicity, double-dealing, cheat,
cheating, delusion, illusion, head game, pretense, pretence,
pretending, simulation, feigning, imposture, impersonation, obscurantism,
bluff, four flush, take-in

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation, misrepresentation