Definition for Dissimulation:

• False pretense.

Synonyms for Dissimulation:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • dissimulation,
  • dissembling.
  •act up (noun)
  • act.
  •camouflage (noun)
  • cloak,
  • front,
  • guise,
  • masking,
  • paint,
  • veil,
  • blind,
  • screen,
  • mimicry,
  • shade,
  • cover,
  • shroud,
  • red herring,
  • beard,
  • faking.
  •concealment (noun)
  • covering,
  • occultation,
  • curtain,
  • laundromat,
  • Laundromats,
  • hide-out,
  • fig leaf,
  • obliteration,
  • secretion,
  • Obscuration,
  • privacy,
  • wraps,
  • obscurations,
  • hide out,
  • occultations,
  • smoke screen,
  • hideaway,
  • hide-outs.
  •cover-up (noun)
  • complicity,
  • conspiracy,
  • whitewash,
  • Disguising,
  • burial.
  •cunning (noun)
  • wile.
  •deceit (noun)
  • trickery,
  • artifice,
  • slyness,
  • craftiness,
  • duplicity,
  • cunning,
  • two-timing,
  • craft,
  • deceitfulness,
  • trapping,
  • Dissemblance,
  • overreaching,
  • chicanery,
  • dirty pool,
  • Entrapping,
  • underhandedness,
  • imposition,
  • Cozening,
  • dishonesty,
  • cheating,
  • treachery,
  • smoke and mirrors,
  • Defrauding,
  • ambidexterity,
  • fraud.
  •deception (noun)
  • cheat,
  • deceptiveness,
  • Defraudation,
  • dirt,
  • mendacity,
  • boondoggles,
  • fast one,
  • blarney,
  • untruth,
  • lying,
  • treason,
  • hokum,
  • betrayal,
  • juggling,
  • legerdemain,
  • sophism,
  • flimflam,
  • boondoggle,
  • circumvention,
  • dupery,
  • trumpery,
  • beguilements,
  • beguilement,
  • prevarication,
  • disinformation,
  • trickiness,
  • insincerity,
  • cozenage,
  • snow job.
  •disguise (noun)
  • coloring,
  • color,
  • costume,
  • semblance,
  • counterfeit,
  • face,
  • pageant,
  • pseudonym,
  • pretension,
  • pen name,
  • facade,
  • illusion,
  • dress,
  • veneer,
  • pretentiousness,
  • charade,
  • put-on.
  •dissemblance (noun)
  • unlikeness.
  •duplicity (noun)
  • dualism,
  • judas kiss,
  • treacherousness,
  • dirty work,
  • perfidiousness,
  • faithlessness,
  • one-upmanship.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • delusion,
  • distortion,
  • runaround,
  • waffle,
  • fallacy,
  • cop out,
  • line,
  • misrepresentation,
  • lie,
  • ambiguity,
  • speciousness,
  • con,
  • shuffling,
  • double talk,
  • sophistry,
  • spuriousness,
  • equivocality,
  • stall,
  • casuistry,
  • doubtfulness,
  • fibbing,
  • amphibology,
  • quibbling routine,
  • song and dance,
  • tergiversation,
  • stonewall,
  • fib,
  • song,
  • hedging,
  • double meaning,
  • shufflings,
  • run-around,
  • double entendre.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • fabrication,
  • misstatement,
  • perjury,
  • mis-statement,
  • fakery,
  • sham,
  • falsity,
  • fable,
  • hogwash,
  • figment,
  • erroneousness,
  • yarn,
  • half truth,
  • whopper,
  • Untruism,
  • untruthfulness,
  • canard,
  • error,
  • fiction,
  • fallaciousness,
  • half truths,
  • story,
  • tall tale,
  • fibbery,
  • falseness,
  • tale,
  • feigning.
  •guile (noun)
  • foul play,
  • ruse,
  • stab in the back,
  • artfulness,
  • sellout,
  • double-cross.
  •hypocrisy (noun)
  • cant,
  • quackery,
  • pietism,
  • affectation,
  • lip service,
  • irreverence,
  • display,
  • mockery,
  • bigotry,
  • imposture.
  •pretending (noun)
  • Shamming,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • Bluffing.
  •pretense (noun)
  • excuse,
  • stunt,
  • routine,
  • acting,
  • posing,
  • ostentation,
  • gag,
  • posturing,
  • claim,
  • invention.
  •tergiversation (noun)
  • shuffle,
  • weasel word,
  • hedge,
  • euphemism.
  •two-facedness (noun)
  • twofacedness,
  • two facedness.
  •wile (noun)
  • setup,
  • contrivance,
  • racket,
  • gambit,
  • lure,
  • game,
  • switch,
  • feint,
  • gimmick,
  • scam,
  • monkey business,
  • ploy,
  • dodge,
  • monkeyshines,
  • shenanigans,
  • little game,
  • plot,
  • slant,
  • horseplay,
  • device,
  • scheming,
  • schemings,
  • twist,
  • angle,
  • maneuver.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • ambidextrousness,
  • camouflage,
  • chicane,
  • concealment,
  • deceit,
  • deception,
  • dirty trick,
  • disguise,
  • domino,
  • dominoes,
  • dominos,
  • double cross,
  • duality,
  • equivocation,
  • evasion,
  • falsehood,
  • falsification,
  • fraudulence,
  • glibness,
  • guile,
  • hypocrisy,
  • jive,
  • mask,
  • masquerade,
  • mummery,
  • perfidy,
  • personation,
  • pretending,
  • pretense,
  • sanctimoniousness,
  • sanctimony,
  • shiftiness,
  • skullduggery,
  • unctuousness,
  • wiliness,
  • Closeting,
  • Double dealing,
  • Equivoque,
  • Mummeries,
  • Pharisaism,
  • schtick,
  • smokescreen,
  • cover up,
  • Illusions,
  • cunnings,
  • bad faith,
  • phoniness,
  • falsifications,
  • smokescreens,
  • personations,
  • dualities,
  • chicanes,
  • coverup,
  • tartuffery,
  • two-facedness,
  • sharp practice,
  • Pharisaicalness,
  • false front,
  • false profession,
  • false appearance,
  • costume ball,
  • dirty dealing,
  • double-dealing,
  • doublecross,
  • dumb act,
  • get-up,
  • jives,
  • make-believe,
  • posturings,
  • stab in back,
  • twoness,
  • cover-up,
  • deceptive marking,
  • plain brown wrapper,
  • protective coloring,
  • hush-up,
  • placing under wraps,
  • seal of secrecy,
  • smoke-screen,
  • veil of secrecy.

Antonyms for Dissimulation:

• n.

  • concealment
    divulgence, exposition, showing, disclosure, revelation, telling.
  • deceit
    frankness, honesty, trustworthiness, forthrightness, reality, uprightness, truth, truthfulness, sincerity, artlessness, openness, fairness.
  • deception
    honor, loyalty, faithfulness.
  • disguise
    personality, rear, character, back.
  • duplicity
    constancy.
  • equivocation
    certainty, surety, fact, meeting, facing, clarity, directness.
  • falsehood
    non-fiction.
  • guile
    naivety.
  • hypocrisy
    righteousness.
  • imposition
    aid, benefit, help, advantage, blessing, profit.
  • make-believe
    substance, existence.
  • pretense
    quiet.
  • sanctimoniousness
    respect.
  • wile
    stupidity.
  • Other antonyms:
    genuineness, reliability, reliableness, trustability, good faith, simplicity, ingenuousness, dependability, probity, plainness, candor, virtuousness, openheartedness, veracity, Sincereness, unaffectedness, candidness, decency, naturalness, goodness, plainspokenness, solidity, trustiness, guilelessness, incorruptibility, straightforwardness, integrity.

Dissimulation Sentence Examples:

• " I hope you will be candid, Mrs. Farron," she said aloud, and for her this was the depth of dissimulation.

• Oh, Boolp, a pretty dissimulation!

Homophones for Dissimulation:

• dissimilation.

Hypernym for Dissimulation:

• n.

  • act
    chicane, simulation, illusion, chicanery, fakery, trickery, delusion, obscurantism, bluff, cheat, guile, cheating, indirection, impersonation, pretense, duplicity, wile, double-dealing, head game, four flush, imposture, pretending, take-in, shenanigan, pretence, feigning.

Hyponym for Dissimulation:

• n.

  • act
    misrepresentation, falsification.