doubleness
- noun
- /ˈdaʊblnəs/
:
duplicidad
- His doubleness was evident when he acted friendly to my face but spoke harshly behind my back.
Examples
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There's duplicity in frost poetry, and there's there's a certain doubleness in the figure that he projects as a poet.
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The muse incarnates doubleness and duplicity.
Academic text (1997) -
The doubleness of the sin, in their view, had been paid off in bullets.
Fiction book (1997) -
Even in its lexical guise, the blot is beset by doubleness.
Academic text (2017) -
As the action continues, the scenography reveals a disturbing doubleness that recalls the heretical piety of a Breughel painting: villagers rustically
Academic text (1997) -
The famous "doubleness" in Thoreau's world and personality results largely from this ever-present alternative—the "either/or" of being looked upon or looking: "I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it."
Academic text (2003) -
The doubleness in her comments made it hard to know what she truly felt.
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The character's doubleness added complexity to the story, revealing both kindness and cruelty.
Synonyms
27
4.9
To use dishonest ways to cheat people
12
8.1
Dishonest behavior that hides true intentions to trick someone
6
4.3
A trick that makes something look like real magic
6
6.8
A thing or action made to trick people into thinking it is real
4
5.6
Not showing true feelings when you speak or act
4
7.2
The quality of seeming false and not sincere
3
8.8
A way of hiding the truth by pretending to be less involved
3
9.9
Hiding your true feelings or intentions by pretending
2
5.8
A way of speaking or acting that is not true
1
6.0
Doing things quietly to trick people without them noticing
1
7.9
The state of not being real or true
1
7.1
Dishonest behavior of pretending one thing but doing another
1
7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
1
9.4
The appearance of being true when it is false
1
6.9
Dishonest behavior by a person or group
1
7.1
Dishonest or sneaky behaviour to get what you want
1
9.7
Dishonest words or actions that try to trick people
The quality of making people believe something that is not true
Hard to find or understand because it seems not real
A person's secretive way of acting that makes others not trust them
A false, not sincere way of speaking or behaving that hides true feelings
Tricks that fool people to gain an advantage
Dishonest actions that try to trick people
Antonyms
How Deceitful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Doubleness comes from the common word double, which goes back to the Latin root duo meaning 'two'. Think of someone who is 'two-faced' — they show one side but hide another — so doubleness here means that hidden, deceitful quality.