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1. deception
noun. ['dɪˈsɛpʃən'] an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.
Synonyms
- magic trick
- sleight of hand
- thaumaturgy
- illusion
- trick
- card trick
- conjuring trick
- prestidigitation
- performance
- magic
- conjuration
Antonyms
- sighted
- perceptive
- rational
- brighten
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Rhymes with Deception
- preconception
- misconception
- contraception
- misperception
- interception
- conception
- reception
- perception
- inception
- exception
Sentences with deception
1. Noun, singular or mass
Magic is a form of deception because the magician tricks the audience.
Quotes about deception
1. Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
- Claude Debussy
2. Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- William Hazlitt
3. Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
- Veronica Roth, Divergent
2. self-deception
noun. ['ˌsɛlfdəˈsɛpʃən'] a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it.
Synonyms
- misconception
Antonyms
- dimension
- concept
Etymology
- deception (English)
- self- (English)
3. deception
noun. ['dɪˈsɛpʃən'] the act of deceiving.
Synonyms
- cheat
- falsification
- illusion
- imposture
- misrepresentation
- bluff
- cheating
- dissimulation
- chicane
- pretending
- deceit
- shenanigan
- duplicity
- pretence
- pretense
- double-dealing
- head game
- indirection
- chicanery
- four flush
- wile
- delusion
- impersonation
- simulation
- feigning
- take-in
- guile
- trickery
- obscurantism
- fakery
Antonyms
- roughness
- profundity
- rear
- contraction
4. deception
noun. ['dɪˈsɛpʃən'] a misleading falsehood.
Synonyms
- bill of goods
- exaggeration
- overstatement
- skulduggery
- blind
- misrepresentation
- fraudulence
- slickness
- facade
- deceit
- duplicity
- skullduggery
- hocus-pocus
- pretence
- hanky panky
- pretense
- half-truth
- magnification
- window dressing
- equivocation
- snow job
- jiggery-pokery
- falsity
- evasion
- humbug
- feigning
- snake oil
- falsehood
- subterfuge
- trickery
- untruth
Antonyms
- understatement
- truthfulness
- unequivocalness
- unambiguity