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- Dictionarydeception/dɪˈsɛpʃn/
noun
- 1. the action of deceiving someone: "obtaining property by deception"
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dishonest or illegal methods that are used to get something, or to make people believe that something is true when it is not: The couple were accused of obtaining money by deception. The Insolvency Act makes stringent provision for company fraud and deception.
The meaning of DECEPTION is the act of causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid : the act of deceiving. How to use deception in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Deception.
Deception refers to the act—big or small, cruel or kind—of encouraging people to believe information that is not true. Lying is a common form of deception—stating something known to...
What does deception mean? Deception is the act or practice of deceiving —lying, misleading, or otherwise hiding or distorting the truth. The related word deceit often means the same thing.
Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver of the message has a tendency to believe it (although it's not always the case).
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."
Definition of deception noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. the act of deceiving; the state of being deceived. something that deceives or is intended to deceive; fraud; artifice. Synonyms: imposture, hoax, wile, ruse, stratagem, trick. deception. / dɪˈsɛpʃən /.
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)
deception. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English de‧cep‧tion /dɪˈsepʃən/ noun [ countable, uncountable] the act of deliberately making someone believe something that is not true → deceive She didn’t have the courage to admit to her deception.
