dissemblance
- noun
- /dɪˈzɛmbləns/
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disimulación
- The contrast between the transformation of Moon's visage and the ordinary tone of voice that he assumes in narrating his story is the contrast between competing impulses toward truthfulness and dissemblance.
So it says this pure purpose is a dissemblance of the truth of the matter.
- So it says this pure purpose is a dissemblance of the truth of the matter.
Examples
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are shifted by means of progressively escalating conceits of authority, fraudulently perpetrated by disciplined equivocation and dissemblance into the classes of
Blog text (13) -
Yet despite missionaries' concerns about Aymara opacity, many Aymara I spoke with attributed to priests an alarming capacity to monitor their activities and detect their dissemblance.
Academic text (2002) -
So it says this pure purpose is a dissemblance of the truth of the matter.
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More to the point is Borges's framing of the problem of discerning between truthfulness and dissemblance.
Academic text (1999) -
Hernando's sense that the Aymara are engaged in a project of dissemblance, calculating "what is it that Padre Hernando wants to hear?"
Academic text (2002) -
The combination of arrogance, hypocrisy, dissemblance, and denial that Infosys continues to display is a slap in the face to the U.S. government and, by extension, to the people of this country.
Blog text (21) -
It was his radio philosophy, his radio technique; take any dissent balance, give the interviewee a few minutes alone with it, so that the dissemblance becomes a lie, and the lie assumes the shape of the truth underneath it.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her constant dissemblance made it difficult for her friends to trust her.
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The politician's dissemblance during the interview raised suspicion about his true intentions.
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He was skilled in dissemblance, always hiding his real thoughts behind a friendly smile.
Synonyms
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5.9
A way of acting that hides how a person really feels
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5.0
Keeping something hidden or secret
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9.9
Hiding your true feelings or intentions by pretending
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9.8
The act of hiding true feelings or thoughts to fool others
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5.3
An act of hiding something so people do not know about it
Antonyms
How Concealing
Surface Forms
Morphology
dissemblance = dissemble (transparent) = dis + sembl + ance
For learners who know 'dissemble', this is a regular noun in '-ance' meaning the act or state of dissembling.
Etymology
The word dissemblance comes from the prefix dis- 'not' and semblance 'appearance', the same idea you see in resemblance or resemble. So, it is about hiding the real appearance or pretending, which is why dissemblance means hiding your true feelings or intentions.