fakery

[ fey-kuh-ree ]

noun

, plural fak·er·ies.

1. the practice or result of faking. fake.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fakery¹

First recorded in 1885–90; fake ¹ + -ery

Example Sentences

As has always been the case, the tricky geometry of hands and ears are good places to look for signs of fakery—although in this medium we are looking at the spatial geometry rather than the tells of impossible lighting.

From Singularity Hub 

The campers had all likely encountered AI-based fakery before.

From Popular-Science

Meanwhile, Kleeman’s depictions of WAT-R and the slick world of showbiz evoke familiar worries about authenticity and fakery and the ways we’re warping nature beyond recognition.

From Outside Online

A growing awareness of deepfakes has also primed people to scrutinize the media they see more carefully, says Toler, as evidenced by how quickly people caught on to the fakery of the Amazon accounts.

From MIT Technology Review

If you ask agency employees about the industry fakery they’ll also tell you they’re fed up with it.

From Digiday

At various points in her career, she was busted for fakery and for plagiarism.

From The Daily Beast

The Swami was an obvious phony of the baldest fakery, yet he had something.

From Project Gutenberg

Three years of this fakery is enough to try the soul of a saint.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a terrible thing to have spent years perfecting the art of fakery, and then to realize you needn't have faked at all.

From Project Gutenberg

As it was, Jenny Harper was first a symbol of the fakery he intended to destroy, and after that a woman.

From Project Gutenberg

And there was no fakery about the warmth from the thing over his chest.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cover-up
• deceit
• deception
• dishonesty
• distortion
• fabrication
• fallacy
• falsity
• misstatement
• perjury
• prevarication
• sham
• tall tale
• untruth