dissimulation

[dih-sim-yuh-ley-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dissimulation¹

1350–1400; Middle English dissimulacioun (< Anglo-French ) < Latin dissimulātiōn- (stem of dissimulātiō a feigning); dis- ¹, simulation

Example Sentences

A senate inquiry into the affair accused the government of a "deliberate strategy" of "dissimulation".

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But in fact I never found that threshold; I stayed lost in the dissimulations of motherhood, whose privatized nature meant that no honest or legitimate relation to reality could ever again be established.

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For the Sankara family the trial is “a chance to heal,” he said — and to establish the realities about a young leader whose story has been blurred by years of mythmaking, dissimulation and lies.

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Her dissimulation, Passon added, included having simultaneous husbands on both American coasts.

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The others were more practiced at this particular dissimulation.

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