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- DictionaryDe·cep·tion/dəˈsepSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. the action of deceiving someone: "obtaining property by deception"
Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff. Deception refers to the act—big or small, cruel or kind—of encouraging people to believe information that is not true. Lying...
the act of hiding the truth, especially to get an advantage: He was found guilty of obtaining money by deception. Synonym. deceit. Fewer examples. He said that the government was guilty of deception by exaggerating the figures. He was arrested on charges of attempted deception when he tried to use a stolen credit card.
Deception is an act or statement that misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, concept, or idea that is not true. This occurs when a deceiver uses information against a person to make them believe an idea is true. Deception can be used with both verbal and nonverbal messages.
[countable] a trick intended to make somebody believe something that is not true synonym deceit. The whole episode had been a cruel deception. His elaborate deception fooled everyone. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin.
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."
the act of deceiving someone by making them believe something that is not true: He was found guilty of obtaining money by deception. (Definition of deception from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of deception. in Chinese (Traditional) 欺騙, 欺詐, 隱瞞… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 欺骗, 欺诈, 隐瞒… See more.
1 day ago · something that deceives, as an illusion, or is meant to deceive, as a fraud. SYNONYMY NOTE: deception is applied to anything that deceives, whether by design or illusion; fraud suggests deliberate deception in dishonestly depriving a person of property, rights, etc.; subterfuge suggests an artifice or stratagem used to deceive others and to ...
