dissimulation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of deceiving
    deceit; deception; dissembling.

WordNet

Dis*sim`u*la"tion noun
Etymology
L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.
Definitions
  1. The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
    Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9.
    Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon.
    Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.

Webster 1913