deceptionn.
/dɪˈsɛpʃən/ 1.
a. The action of deceiving or cheating.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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abetment1586
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chicanery1589
falsery1594
falsity1603
fubbery1604
renaldry1612
supercherie1621
circumduction1623
fobbinga1627
dice-play1633
beguile1637
fallaxitya1641
ingannation1646
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renardism1661
dodgerya1670
knapping1671
trap1681
joukery-pawkery1686
jugglery1699
take-in1772
tripotage1779
trickery1801
ruse1807
dupery1816
nailing1819
pawkery1820
hanky-panky1841
hokey-pokey1847
suck-in1856
phenakisma1863
skulduggery1867
sharp practice1869
dodginess1871
jiggery-pokery1893
flim-flammery1898
runaround1915
hanky1924
to give the go-around1925
Scandiknavery1927
the twist1933
hype1955
mamaguy1971
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 76 Hope dispeyred, a gwerdonles gwerdone; Trusty disceyte, feythful decepcioune.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 41 Þt ben harmedoers & loueth falshode & desepcion.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxvi. 95 What grete decepcions and iniuries she ymagyneth ayenst the.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 126 For greit disceptioun all this thing he did.
a1600 Doctrynall Good Servauntes in E. F. Rimbault Anc. Poet. Tracts 16th Cent. (1842) 4 Fle dysceyte, gyle, and decepcyon.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 601 All Deception is a Misapplying of those Signs, which..were made the Means of Men's signifying, or conveying their Thoughts.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 170 He was accustomed to no falsehood or deception.
1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised i. 45 These plants exist by an organized system of deception.
b. The fact or condition of being deceived.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > state of being deceived
blindfolding?c1225
deception1646
beguilement1842
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iv. 113 Hee is surely greedy of delusion, and will hardly avoide deception . View more context for this quotation
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxi. 17 The public has fallen into the deception.
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 158 Deception—A principal ingredient in happiness.
2. That which deceives; a piece of trickery; a cheat, sham.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
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deception1794
Yorkshire bite1795
fakement1811
fake1829
practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
have1885
ficelle1890
wheeze1903
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roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. vii. 342 Here is some deception, some trick.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 176 Launching the anathemas of what we call taste against so paltry a deception.
1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 130 There was no background to form a phantasmagoria deception.
Derivatives
deˈceptionist n. one who performs feats of illusion; a juggler.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer
jugglera1100
tregetour1340
hey-passa1593
prestigiator1595
baffler1606
feat-worker1617
hocus-pocus1624
hocus1647
chirosophist1652
fascinator1677
legerdemain1696
prestidigitator1712
conjurer1727
sleight-of-hand man1757
nimble-fingers1781
sleight-of-hand professor1801
legerdemainist1830
magician1834
illusionist1850
jongleura1851
wizard1859
deceptionist1883
mentalist1906
1883 Society 20 Jan. 22/1 ‘The American Deceptionist’..with his marvellous juggling tricks.
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