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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Deception \De*cep"tion\, n. [F. d['e]ception, L. deceptio, fr.
     decipere, deceptum. See Deceive.]
     1. The act of deceiving or misleading. --South.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The state of being deceived or misled.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              There is one thing relating either to the action or
              enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to
              deception.                            --South.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false
        representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              There was of course room for vast deception.
                                                    --Motley.
  
     Syn: Deception, Deceit, Fraud, Imposition.
  
     Usage: Deception usually refers to the act, and deceit to the
            habit of the mind; hence we speak of a person as
            skilled in deception and addicted to deceit. The
            practice of deceit springs altogether from design, and
            that of the worst kind; but a deception does not
            always imply aim and intention. It may be undesigned
            or accidental. An imposition is an act of deception
            practiced upon some one to his annoyance or injury; a
            fraud implies the use of stratagem, with a view to
            some unlawful gain or advantage.
            [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Deception \De*cep"tion\, n. [F. d['e]ception, L. deceptio, fr.
     decipere, deceptum. See Deceive.]
     1. The act of deceiving or misleading. --South.
  
     2. The state of being deceived or misled.
  
              There is one thing relating either to the action or
              enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to
              deception.                            --South.
  
     3. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false
        representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
  
              There was of course room for vast deception.
                                                    --Motley.
  
     Syn: Deception, Deceit, Fraud, Imposition.
  
     Usage: Deception usually refers to the act, and deceit to the
            habit of the mind; hence we speak of a person as
            skilled in deception and addicted to deceit. The
            practice of deceit springs altogether from design, and
            that of the worst kind; but a deception does not
            always imply aim and intention. It may be undesigned
            or accidental. An imposition is an act of deception
            practiced upon some one to his annoyance or injury; a
            fraud implies the use of stratagem, with a view to
            some unlawful gain or advantage.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  deception
       n 1: a misleading falsehood [syn: misrepresentation, deceit]
       2: the act of deceiving [syn: deceit, dissembling, dissimulation]
       3: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
          [syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic,
          legerdemain, conjuration, illusion]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  deception
     Αγγλικά n.
     απάτη

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  deception
     n.
     An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone
  into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  deception
     n.
     An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone
  into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  deception
     n.
     An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone
  into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  deception
     n.
     An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone
  into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  deception
     Englanti n.
     harhautus, hämäys

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  deception
     Engelska n.
     bedrägeri

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/
  المكر

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  deception //dɪˈsɛpʃən// 
  заблужде́ние, изма́ма, лъжа́
  instance of actions fabricated to mislead

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/ 
  klam

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/ 
  oklamání

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/ 
  podvod

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/ 
  klamání

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/
  Täuschung , Blendwerk  [geh.]
        "He practiced deception on his unsuspecting clients."  - Er täuschte seine ahnungslosen Klienten.
     Synonym: deceit
  
   see: deceptions, deceits, willful deception, willful deceit
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/
  Verschleierung 

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  deception //dɪˈsɛpʃən// 
  petos
  instance of actions fabricated to mislead

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/ 
  1. छल
        "He made deception his way of life and suffered later."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/
  izdaja, neistinost, nepoštenje, obmana, obmane, prijevara, varka

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/
  1. csalódás
  2. tévedés
  3. fortély
  4. csalás

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  deception //dɪˈsɛpʃən// 
  いんちき, ごまかし, 欺瞞, 欺騙
  instance of actions fabricated to mislead

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  deception /dɪˈsepʃən/ 
   1.  podstęp
   2.  oszustwo

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/ 
  decepção

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  deception //dɪˈsɛpʃən// 
  bedrägeri
  instance of actions fabricated to mislead

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  deception /dɪsˈɛpʃən/
  1. aldatma, aldanma
  2. yalancılık
  3. hile, düzen, dolap. deceptive  aldatan, aldatıcı. deceptively  aldatarak, aldatıcı bir surette. deceptiveness  aldatıcılık, düzenbazlık, hilekarlık.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/dɪˈsɛpʃən/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  151 Moby Thesaurus words for "deception":
     acting, affectation, airy nothing, appearance, artifice,
     attitudinizing, autism, befooling, bluff, bluffing, bubble, burial,
     burying, casuistry, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chimera,
     clouding, color, coloring, concealedness, concealment, covering,
     covering up, covertness, cunning, darkening, daydream, deceit,
     deceptiveness, defrauding, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dirt,
     disguise, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation,
     double-dealing, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, dupery,
     duping, duplicity, equivocation, facade, face, fake, fakement,
     fakery, faking, false air, false belief, false front, false show,
     falsity, feigning, feint, flam, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt,
     gloss, guile, gulling, gyp, hallucination, hanky-panky, hiddenness,
     hiding, hoax, hoodwinking, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy,
     ignis fatuus, illusion, impose, imposture, indirection, interment,
     intrigue, invisibility, knavery, manipulation, masking, masquerade,
     meretriciousness, mirage, misbelief, misconception, mystification,
     obscuration, obscurement, occultation, ostentation, outward show,
     overreaching, pipe dream, playacting, pose, posing, posture,
     pretense, pretension, pretext, putting away, representation, ride,
     rip-off, ruse, screening, secrecy, secretion, seeming, self-deceit,
     self-deception, self-delusion, sell, semblance, sham,
     sharp practice, show, simulacrum, simulation, snow job, sophism,
     sophistry, speciousness, spoof, spuriousness, stratagem,
     subterfuge, tergiversation, treachery, trick, trickery, trip,
     uncommunicativeness, vapor, varnish, wile, window dressing,
     wrong impression
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 欺骗,诡计;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 欺骗,诡计

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