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Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- putting on,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- victimization
collapse - adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his victimization infuriated him" related words >
- McCarthyism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- hoodwinking,
- hounding,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- oppression,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- persecution,
- phantasm,
- putting on,
- red-baiting,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- tormenting,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting
- fakery
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- the act of faking (or the product of faking) related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copying,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- snow job
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- a long and elaborate misrepresentation related words >
- allurement,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blandishment,
- bluffing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- hortation,
- illusion,
- inducement,
- jawboning,
- kidding,
- lobbying,
- mirage,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- persuasion,
- phantasm,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- putting on,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- self-deception,
- selling,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- suasion,
- subterfuge,
- sweet talk,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- wheedling,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- working on
- acting,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- attitudinarianism,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- incarnation,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- peacockery,
- peacockishness,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posture,
- posturing,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- self-deception
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- a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it related words >
- airy nothing,
- autism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- daydream,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false belief,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- misinterpretation,
- misunderstanding,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- pipe dream,
- putting on,
- self-deceit,
- self-delusion,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wrong impression
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- contrast,
- cunning,
- deception,
- delusion,
- difference,
- discrepancy,
- disguise,
- disparity,
- dissembling,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissimulation,
- distinction,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- duplicity,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- makeup,
- masquerade,
- mere caricature,
- meretriciousness,
- nonuniformity,
- ostentation,
- otherness,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- poor imitation,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- unlikeness,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mummery,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- projection,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- entrapment
collapse
- a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials related words >
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- appeal,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishment,
- bluffing,
- cajolery,
- calculated deception,
- captivation,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- circumvention,
- come-hither,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- enchantment,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fascination,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- illusion,
- inducement,
- interest,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- kidding,
- magnetism,
- mirage,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- putting on,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- self-deception,
- sex appeal,
- snaring,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- tantalization,
- temptation,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- wishful thinking,
- witchery,
- wooing
- circumvention
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- the act of evading by going around related words >
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- buck-passing,
- calculated deception,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defense mechanism,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dodge,
- duck,
- dupery,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- foiling,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- frustration,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- illusion,
- jink,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- outguessing,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- passing the buck,
- phantasm,
- prevention,
- putting on,
- refraining,
- self-deception,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- thwarting,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- zigzag
- mirage
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- something illusory and unattainable
- an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects related words >
- apparition,
- appearance,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- betrayed hope,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blow,
- bluffing,
- buffet,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- comedown,
- conning,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defeat,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- disappointment,
- discomfiture,
- disillusionment,
- dissatisfaction,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- failure,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- fallen countenance,
- false image,
- falseness,
- fata morgana,
- fiasco,
- figure,
- fizzle,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- foiling,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- forlorn hope,
- form,
- frustration,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- hope deferred,
- illusion,
- image,
- kidding,
- letdown,
- looming,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- phasm,
- phenomenon,
- presence,
- putting on,
- self-deception,
- setback,
- shape,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- sore disappointment,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- tantalization,
- tease,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- pretext
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- something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- alibi,
- allege,
- alternative,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- avow,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- choice,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- cover story,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- loophole,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- plea,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- profess,
- protest too much,
- purport,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- red herring,
- representation,
- right,
- ruse,
- saving clause,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stated cause,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- underlying reason,
- varnish,
- veil,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- window dressing
- Prospero,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airiness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- false air,
- false appearance,
- false front,
- false light,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- idealization,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- image,
- immateriality,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mannerism,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- prestidigitation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- unactuality,
- unnaturalness,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- simulation
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- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated" related words >
- accordance,
- acting,
- adoption,
- affectation,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- appearance,
- approach,
- appropriation,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- borrowed plumes,
- cheating,
- closeness,
- color,
- coloring,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- identity,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- infringement,
- likeness,
- likening,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- metaphor,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mirroring,
- mocking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- parody,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- taking,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- hallucination
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- an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"
- illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder related words >
- aberration,
- agnosia,
- apparition,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- block,
- blocking,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delirium tremens,
- delusion,
- delusion of persecution,
- delusiveness,
- disorientation,
- dream,
- dupery,
- eidolon,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fata morgana,
- fiction,
- figment,
- flight of ideas,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- ghost,
- hallucinosis,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- mental block,
- mental confusion,
- mind-expansion,
- mirage,
- myth,
- nihilism,
- nihilistic delusion,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- paralogia,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- psychological block,
- putting on,
- romance,
- self-deception,
- sick fancy,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- tripping,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wraith
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippant,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- mirage,
- mocking,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- pleasantry,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- window dressing
collapse
- the decoration of shop windows related words >
- acting,
- adjunct,
- adornment,
- affectation,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- arrangement,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- cheating,
- color,
- color patterns,
- coloring,
- deception,
- decor,
- decoration,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaboration,
- embellishment,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embroidery,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flourish,
- flower arrangement,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illumination,
- imposture,
- lap,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- obverse,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- put-on,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- trim,
- trimming,
- varnish,
- veneer
- speciousness
collapse
- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- apparent soundness,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- circularity,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- disingenuousness,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- oversubtlety,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- public image,
- rationalization,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- window dressing
- imposture
collapse
- pretending to be another person related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copy,
- copying,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeiting,
- cozenage,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- emulation,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- front,
- gambit,
- gerrymandering,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- hit-off,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposition,
- impression,
- make-believe,
- maneuver,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- phony,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- ploy,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- put-on,
- quackery,
- quackishness,
- quackism,
- racket,
- repetition,
- representation,
- ruse,
- scam,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- swindle,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing
- song and dance
collapse
- theatrical performance combining singing and dancing related words >
- Broadway musical,
- Singspiel,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- ballad opera,
- ballet,
- ballet divertissement,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bit,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- chaser,
- chorus show,
- circumvention,
- comedy ballet,
- comic opera,
- conning,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- dance drama,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- epilogue,
- exode,
- exodus,
- expository scene,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- finale,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- grand opera,
- hallucination,
- hoke act,
- hoodwinking,
- illusion,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- introduction,
- kidding,
- light opera,
- lyric drama,
- minstrel,
- minstrel show,
- mirage,
- music drama,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- musical stage,
- musical theater,
- number,
- opera,
- opera ballet,
- opera bouffe,
- opera buffa,
- operetta,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- pitch,
- prologue,
- putting on,
- routine,
- scene,
- self-deception,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- snow job,
- song-and-dance act,
- song-play,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stand-up comedy act,
- striptease,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- turn,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- Masan,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- bamboozlement,
- banshee,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- control,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- departed spirit,
- disembodied spirit,
- dupery,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figure,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- form,
- ghost,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- hallucination,
- hant,
- haunt,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- larva,
- lemures,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manes,
- materialization,
- mirage,
- myth,
- oni,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- presence,
- putting on,
- revenant,
- romance,
- self-deception,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- sick fancy,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- spook,
- sprite,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- theophany,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unsubstantiality,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dream,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wraith,
- zombie
- illusion
collapse
- something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
- an erroneous mental representation related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- air,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- bamboozlement,
- bedevilment,
- befooling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- captivation,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- dream,
- dupery,
- eidolon,
- enchantment,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrancement,
- entrapment,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- ether,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fascination,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- fiction,
- figment,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- maya,
- mirage,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mist,
- mistake,
- myth,
- obsession,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- phantasm,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- possession,
- putting on,
- rainbow,
- romance,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- self-deception,
- semblance,
- shadow,
- sick fancy,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- smoke,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spirit,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thin air,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- witchery,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- acting
collapse
- the performance of a part or role in a drama related words >
- act,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- ad interim,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- at work,
- attitudinizing,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- deputative,
- deputy,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- employment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- exercise,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- going,
- going on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incarnation,
- interim,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- movements,
- mummery,
- occupation,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- projection,
- representation,
- representative,
- running,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- serving,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- supply,
- swing,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- wishful thinking
collapse
- the illusion that what you wish for is actually true related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blame-shifting,
- blind faith,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conning,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- daydream,
- daydreaming,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
- disposition to believe,
- dissociation,
- dotage,
- dreamery,
- dupery,
- ease of belief,
- emotional insulation,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fondness,
- fooling,
- gross credulity,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- infatuation,
- isolation,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nostalgia,
- outwitting,
- overcompensation,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overreaching,
- overtrustfulness,
- phantasm,
- play of fancy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- putting on,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rash conviction,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unpracticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- utopianism,
- victimization,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- will to believe,
- willful misconception,
- willingness to believe,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful belief,
- wishfulness,
- wistful eye,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- yearnfulness
- fooling
collapse
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" related words >
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- buffoonery,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- clownishness,
- conning,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fiddling,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- foolery,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harlequinade,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- high jinks,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- horseplay,
- idling,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jerking off,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- levity,
- loitering,
- messing around,
- mirage,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- monkeyshines,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pleasantry,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- shenanigans,
- skylarking,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smattering,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- tinkering,
- tomfoolery,
- toying,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trifling,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- pretense
collapse
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- refuge,
- representation,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stated cause,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- title,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- deception
collapse
- the act of deceiving related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- airy nothing,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- autism,
- befooling,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- burial,
- burying,
- casuistry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chimera,
- clouding,
- color,
- coloring,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- cunning,
- darkening,
- daydream,
- deceit,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dirt,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- duping,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false belief,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- gulling,
- gyp,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hoax,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- impose,
- imposture,
- indirection,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- knavery,
- manipulation,
- masking,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mystification,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overreaching,
- pipe dream,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- putting away,
- representation,
- ride,
- rip-off,
- ruse,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- seeming,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- snow job,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- spuriousness,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing,
- wrong impression
- abatis,
- absorption,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- advanced work,
- affair,
- amour,
- association,
- balistraria,
- bamboozlement,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- calculated deception,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- circumvention,
- cobweb,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- conning,
- contact,
- contravallation,
- convolution,
- counterscarp,
- crabbedness,
- cuckoldry,
- curtain,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- dupery,
- earthwork,
- embarrassment,
- embroilment,
- enclosure,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entrapment,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- eternal triangle,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- forbidden love,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hoodwinking,
- illicit love,
- illusion,
- implication,
- inclusion,
- infidelity,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- intrigue,
- involution,
- involvement,
- kidding,
- liaison,
- loophole,
- love affair,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- meshes,
- mirage,
- mound,
- outwitting,
- outwork,
- overreaching,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- perplexity,
- phantasm,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- putting on,
- ramification,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- relation,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stockade,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- swindling,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- tenaille,
- toils,
- triangle,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- unfaithfulness,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- victimization,
- vision,
- web,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- work
- falsity
collapse
- the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" related words >
- Punic faith,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad faith,
- barratry,
- blague,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- canard,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- cock-and-bull story,
- color,
- coloring,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- deviancy,
- disaffection,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- disingenuousness,
- disloyalty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fairy tale,
- faithlessness,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fib,
- fickleness,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- front,
- ghost story,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- half-truth,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- illusion,
- imposture,
- inconstancy,
- infidelity,
- insincerity,
- inveracity,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mala fides,
- masquerade,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misrepresentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- peccancy,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- perversion,
- pious fiction,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- recreancy,
- representation,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slight stretching,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trothlessness,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- uncandidness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- varnish,
- white lie,
- window dressing,
- wrong,
- wrongness,
- yarn
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