Synonyms and Antonyms for deception
1. deception (n.)
a misleading falsehood
- blind
- falsehood
- duplicity
- falsity
- snake oil
- window dressing
- facade
- half-truth
- trickery
- evasion
- slickness
- snow job
- jiggery-pokery
- magnification
- dissembling
- bill of goods
- exaggeration
- overstatement
- fraudulence
- hocus-pocus
- deceit
- misrepresentation
- pretense
- skullduggery
- feigning
- humbug
- equivocation
- hanky panky
- skulduggery
- pretence
- untruth
- subterfuge
2. self-deception (n.)
a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it
3. deception (n.)
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
4. deception (n.)
the act of deceiving
- chicane
- pretending
- duplicity
- cheat
- delusion
- take-in
- dissimulation
- fakery
- double-dealing
- impersonation
- cheating
- trickery
- dissembling
- shenanigan
- illusion
- imposture
- head game
- obscurantism
- four flush
- bluff
- deceit
- misrepresentation
- pretense
- feigning
- chicanery
- guile
- falsification
- pretence
- simulation
- indirection
- wile
