Definition for Deception:

• a misleading falsehood

Synonyms for Deception:

• n.

  •
  • wile.
  •color (noun)
  • false show.
  •communication (noun)
  • misrepresentation.
  •deception (noun)
  • flimflam,
  • hoax,
  • flimflammery,
  • conjuration,
  • chicanery,
  • forgery,
  • humbug,
  • dissembling,
  • magic,
  • legerdemain,
  • conjuring trick,
  • magic trick.
  •decoy (noun)
  • blind,
  • mirage,
  • bait,
  • lure.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • tergiversation.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • fallaciousness,
  • hogwash,
  • fakery,
  • feigning.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • incantation,
  • gobbledegook.
  •misleading; being dishonest (noun)
  • juggling,
  • lying,
  • duplicity,
  • cozenage,
  • untruth,
  • circumvention,
  • dupery,
  • treachery,
  • trumpery,
  • boondoggle,
  • craftiness,
  • beguilement,
  • hokum,
  • trickery,
  • trickiness,
  • imposition,
  • dirt,
  • deceitfulness,
  • blarney,
  • Defraudation,
  • snow job.
  •stratagem (noun)
  • artifice,
  • Trojan Horse,
  • game,
  • tactics,
  • dodge,
  • maneuver,
  • device,
  • contrivance,
  • plot,
  • ploy,
  • pitfall,
  • wrinkle,
  • machination,
  • trick of the trade,
  • ruse.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hot air,
  • ambush,
  • dramatics,
  • loophole,
  • skulduggery,
  • facade,
  • pose,
  • rigging,
  • pretension,
  • turpitude,
  • foul play,
  • collusion,
  • shenanigan,
  • newspeak,
  • play-acting,
  • doublespeak,
  • jiggery-pokery.
  •
  • air,
  • camouflage,
  • gimmick,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • front,
  • piety.
  •
  • cunning.
  •
  • show.
  •
  • act.
  •charlatanism
  • quackery.
  •deceit
  • monkey business.
  •mask
  • disguise.
  •Other relevant words:
  • acting,
  • finesse,
  • draw,
  • imitative,
  • false impression,
  • intrigue,
  • concealment,
  • cram,
  • pipe dream,
  • boasting,
  • mystification,
  • Concealedness,
  • beguile,
  • shift,
  • erroneous,
  • false belief,
  • whitewash,
  • disgrace,
  • betray,
  • bring,
  • bluster,
  • vapor,
  • four-flushing,
  • darkening,
  • insidiousness,
  • fiddle,
  • sidestep,
  • dreamland,
  • incorrect,
  • hallucination,
  • Fooling,
  • wrong,
  • scheme,
  • conspiracy,
  • fictional,
  • faithlessness,
  • Bluffing,
  • excellence,
  • dictate,
  • juggle,
  • conjury,
  • Puffery,
  • swizz,
  • deceive,
  • have,
  • dishonorable,
  • dirty work,
  • mischief,
  • misapprehension,
  • colouring,
  • secrecy,
  • credulity,
  • pettifogging,
  • autism,
  • Flam,
  • Thimblerigging,
  • antic,
  • murder,
  • occultation,
  • kid,
  • assume,
  • guess,
  • dishonest,
  • overreaching,
  • defraud,
  • invisibility,
  • manoeuvre,
  • deceitful,
  • impose,
  • invention,
  • dexterity,
  • bragging,
  • disrepute,
  • credulousness,
  • roguery,
  • gasconade,
  • false,
  • caper,
  • MALA FIDES,
  • put on,
  • dreamworld,
  • Pipelaying,
  • ostentation,
  • Phantasm,
  • apocryphal,
  • befooling,
  • con game,
  • simulation,
  • simulated,
  • rip off,
  • mistake,
  • deviousness,
  • trip,
  • vapour,
  • antics,
  • pretext,
  • occupy,
  • Covin,
  • not real,
  • Charlatanry,
  • interment,
  • alternative,
  • faulty,
  • naughtiness,
  • factitious,
  • proficiency,
  • head game,
  • meretriciousness,
  • charlatanism,
  • untrue,
  • John,
  • false swearing,
  • wheeze,
  • shuck,
  • secretion,
  • Phariseeism,
  • foolishness,
  • Dexterousness,
  • masking,
  • faking,
  • enchant,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • fraudulent,
  • slyness,
  • suppose,
  • imaginary,
  • swizzle,
  • infatuation,
  • nostrum,
  • consider,
  • sophistry,
  • artfulness,
  • indirection,
  • seeming,
  • disloyal,
  • Obscuration,
  • plant,
  • roguishness,
  • Defrauding,
  • shenanigans,
  • crime,
  • defalcation,
  • manslaughter,
  • Dissemblance,
  • bigotry,
  • Barney,
  • perjury,
  • hollow,
  • facility,
  • underhandedness,
  • coloured,
  • gyp,
  • mastery,
  • performance,
  • treacherousness,
  • carry,
  • distraction,
  • fib,
  • fabrication,
  • mendacious,
  • obstinacy,
  • bubble,
  • perfidiousness,
  • burying,
  • covering up,
  • gilt,
  • Duping,
  • bombast,
  • substitute,
  • entanglement,
  • unreal,
  • varnish,
  • captivate,
  • prank,
  • face,
  • address,
  • enrapture,
  • jest,
  • competence,
  • gambit,
  • joke,
  • phantasy,
  • error,
  • screening,
  • white lie,
  • mock attack,
  • chimera,
  • representation,
  • above,
  • fantasy,
  • craft,
  • ersatz,
  • dream,
  • ride,
  • delude,
  • believe,
  • Fudging,
  • playacting,
  • invocation,
  • Gulling,
  • window dressing,
  • Callidity,
  • double-talk,
  • covering,
  • dream vision,
  • net,
  • strategy,
  • song and dance,
  • skill,
  • plan,
  • empty,
  • tour de force,
  • expedient,
  • posture,
  • evasiveness,
  • Panurgy,
  • hiding,
  • ruse de guerre,
  • chouse,
  • surmise,
  • guilefulness,
  • falsity,
  • tomfoolery,
  • Misjudgment,
  • smokescreen,
  • gammon,
  • leg-pull,
  • goings-on,
  • bravado,
  • receipt,
  • spurious,
  • gloss,
  • wishful thinking,
  • knack,
  • puzzle,
  • supercherie,
  • appearance,
  • Self-delusion,
  • infer,
  • cog,
  • false move,
  • tactic,
  • vision,
  • adroitness,
  • Humbuggery,
  • mastership,
  • dodging,
  • fallacious,
  • Subreption,
  • daydream,
  • gullibility,
  • coloring,
  • spoofing,
  • hook,
  • shrewdness,
  • fiction,
  • necessity,
  • manipulation,
  • crookery,
  • confidence trick,
  • eyewash,
  • fictitious,
  • suspect,
  • hoodwinking,
  • bewitch,
  • confidence game,
  • Covertness,
  • espieglerie,
  • dishonor,
  • Thaumaturgy,
  • excuse,
  • Kidding,
  • crooked,
  • posing,
  • attitudinizing,
  • art,
  • bilk,
  • expertness,
  • Improbity,
  • fetch,
  • Cullibility,
  • artificial,
  • malarkey,
  • hiddenness,
  • foxiness,
  • crock,
  • sting,
  • simulacrum,
  • borrow,
  • rodomontade,
  • bogus,
  • Hyperorthodoxy,
  • clouding,
  • mendaciousness,
  • attract,
  • quibbling,
  • infidelity,
  • superstition,
  • likeness,
  • corrupt,
  • Swindling,
  • burial,
  • story,
  • semblance,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • fancy,
  • Obscurement,
  • cover,
  • faithless,
  • unfaithful,
  • affectation,
  • stance,
  • hustle,
  • embezzlement,
  • homicide,
  • mare's-nest,
  • dishonesty,
  • slickness,
  • pretence,
  • racket,
  • self-deceit,
  • skillfulness.

Paraphrases for Deception:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    deceit.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cheating, trickery, deceit.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    delusion, evasion.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    treason, ruse, decoy, lie, misleading, con, disillusion, falsification, forgery, frustration, fraudster, ploy, cover-up, mistake.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Defrauding, Involving, misleading.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disappointment, scam, dishonesty, prevarication, disinformation, misinformation, hoax, treachery, Swindling, illusion, betrayal, falsehood, circumvention, mendacity, swindle, trick, seduction, sham, disillusionment, concealment, manipulation, disenchantment.

Antonyms for Deception:

• n.

  • misleading; being dishonest
    honor, openness, uprightness, forthrightness, faithfulness, loyalty, sincerity, honesty, truth, trustworthiness, frankness, truthfulness.
  • trick
    reality.
  • Other antonyms:
    directness, candidness, plainspokenness, righteousness, incorruptibility, simplicity, trustability, plainness, decency, dependability, guilelessness, reliableness, good faith, goodness, reliability, virtuousness, veracity, solidity, trustiness, artlessness.

Homophones for Deception:

• disputation, decapitation, dissipation, djiboutian, Disceptation.

Hypernym for Deception:

• n.

  • communication
    overstatement, slickness, snow job, feigning, jiggery-pokery, hocus-pocus, fraudulence, pretence, half-truth, humbug, trickery, facade, equivocation, evasion, pretense, Hanky Panky, bill of goods, duplicity, dissembling, magnification, blind, snake oil, window dressing, skulduggery, subterfuge, exaggeration, skullduggery.

Hyponym for Deception:

• n.

  • communication
    falsity, falsehood, untruth.