All deceptiveness synonyms

noun deceptiveness

• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• misinterpretation — An instance of misinterpreting.
• heresy — opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
• paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• inconsistency — the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
• inaccuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• non-spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
• speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• trickiness — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
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• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• trumpery — something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
• circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
• legerdemain — sleight of hand.
• treason — the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
• blarney — Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.