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- Dictionarydeception/dɪˈsɛpʃn/
noun
- 1. the action of deceiving someone: "obtaining property by deception"
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Deception is the act of hiding the truth, especially to get an advantage. Learn more about the meaning, synonyms, usage and examples of deception in English with Cambridge Dictionary.
- English (US)
DECEPTION meaning: 1. the act of hiding the truth,...
- Znaczenie Deception, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
DECEPTION definicja: 1. the act of hiding the truth,...
- Deception in Japanese
DECEPTION translate: インチキ, 欺まん, ごまかし. Learn more in the...
- Traditional
DECEPTION translate: 欺騙;欺詐;隱瞞. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Simplified
DECEPTION translate: 欺骗;欺诈;隐瞒. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Deception in Spanish
DECEPTION translate: engaño, engaño [masculine]. Learn more...
- Deception in Russian
DECEPTION translate: обман . Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Portuguese Translation
DECEPTION translate: engano, engodo, farsa [feminine]. Learn...
- English (US)
Learn the meaning of deception as the act of deceiving or being deceived, and see synonyms, examples, and word history. Find out how to use deception in a sentence and explore related phrases and articles.
Deception is the act or practice of deceiving —lying, misleading, or otherwise hiding or distorting the truth. The related word deceit often means the same thing. Deception doesn’t just involve lying. It can consist of misrepresenting or omitting the truth or more complicated cover-ups.
Deception is the act of encouraging people to believe false information, often for personal gain or harm. Learn about the forms, reasons, and effects of deception, and how to spot and avoid it.
- People may deliberately create false information or fabricate a story. But most often, sheer invention is not the soul of lying. Rather, people dec...
- Deception isn’t always an outward-facing act. There are also the lies people tell themselves, for reasons ranging from maintenance of self-esteem t...
- Gaslighting is a pernicious form of manipulation in which someone is deliberately told false information with an intent to harm—specifically to und...
- Delusions are an extreme, pathological form of self-deception . They are false beliefs that contradict reality but which a person is convinced are...
- Many experts propose that liars reveal themselves in "tells," major and minor changes in body language or facial expressions. But observable signs...
- Most people are not aware of the ways they fool themselves . But psychologist have identified many signals of self-deception. Outsize emotional rea...
- There is a longstanding belief that the eyes are a window to the truth, that liars are “shifty” and inadvertently signal their deception by avertin...
- Covering a neck with a hand, raising the inside edge of a foot , compressing the lips—all are signs of tension that has been linked to lying. There...
- Researchers find that language and speech can offer possible but not definitive clues to deception. In analyses of text messages, liars tend to ram...
Deception is a trick or scheme used to get what you want, like the deception you used to get your sister to agree to do all your chores for a month. Deception occurs when you deceive, a word that comes from the Latin de-meaning "from" and capere, meaning "to take."
Deception is the act of deliberately making somebody believe something that is not true, or a trick intended to do the same. Learn more about the word family, synonyms, topics and collocations of deception with Oxford dictionaries.
Deception is the act of deceiving someone by making them believe something that is not true. Learn more about this word, its synonyms, translations and usage with examples from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary.
