'Dissemblance' definitions:
Definition of 'Dissemblance'
From: GCIDE
- Dissemblance \Dis*sem"blance\, n. [Cf. F. dissemblance. See Dissemble.] Want of resemblance; dissimilitude. [R.] --Osborne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dissemblance'
From: GCIDE
- Dissemblance \Dis*sem"blance\, n. [Dissemble + -ance.] The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dissemblance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- contrast,
- cunning,
- deception,
- delusion,
- difference,
- discrepancy,
- disguise,
- disparity,
- dissembling,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissimulation,
- distinction,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- duplicity,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- makeup,
- masquerade,
- mere caricature,
- meretriciousness,
- nonuniformity,
- ostentation,
- otherness,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- poor imitation,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- unlikeness,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- varnish,
- window dressing