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deceit
Overview of noun deceit
The noun deceit has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) fraudulence, deceit -- (the quality of being fraudulent)
2. misrepresentation, deceit, deception -- (a misleading falsehood)
3. deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation -- (the act of deceiving)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deceit
3 senses of deceit
Sense 1
fraudulence, deceit
=> dishonesty
=> unrighteousness
=> immorality
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> falsehood, falsity, untruth
=> statement
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> falsification, misrepresentaation
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun deceit
2 of 3 senses of deceit
Sense 2
misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> 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
Sense 3
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> 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
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deceit
3 senses of deceit
Sense 1
fraudulence, deceit
=> dishonesty
Sense 2
misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> falsehood, falsity, untruth
Sense 3
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> falsification, misrepresentaation
Antonyms of noun deceit
Member Holonyms of noun deceit
Substance Holonyms of noun deceit
Part Holonyms of noun deceit
Member Meronyms of noun deceit
Substance Meronyms of noun deceit
Part Meronyms of noun deceit
Meronyms of noun deceit
Holonyms of noun deceit
Attributes of noun deceit
Derived Forms of noun deceit
Domain of noun deceit
Domain Terms of noun deceit
Familiarity of noun deceit
deceit used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun deceit
3 senses of deceit
Sense 1
fraudulence, deceit
> dishonesty
=> corruptness, corruption
=> unscrupulousness
=> deceptiveness, obliquity
=> fraudulence, deceit
=> crookedness, deviousness
=> rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness
=> thievishness, larcenous
=> untruthfulness
=> disingenuousness
Sense 2
misrepresentation, deceit, deception
> falsehood, falsity, untruth
=> dodge, dodging, scheme
=> lie, prevarication
=> fabrication, fiction, fable
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> contradiction, contradiction in terms
Sense 3
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
> falsification, misrepresentaation
=> distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting
=> equivocation, tergiversation
=> lying, prevarication, fabrication
=> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
Meronyms of noun deceit
3 senses of deceit
Holonyms of noun deceit
Grep of noun deceit
deceit
deceitfulness
self-deceit
Grep of adj deceit
deceitful
Grep of adv deceit
deceitfully
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