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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The use of deceit.
  2. n. The fact or state of being deceived.
  3. n. A ruse; a trick.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of deceiving or misleading.
  2. n. The state of being deceived or misled.
  3. n. That which deceives; artifice; cheat: as, the scheme is all a deception. Synonyms and Deceit, Deception, Fraud. See deceit. Trick, imposition, ruse, wile.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of deceiving or misleading.
  2. n. The state of being deceived or misled.
  3. n. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of deceiving
  2. n. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
  3. n. a misleading falsehood

Etymologies

  1. Past participle of Latin decipere "deceive"; gerund form of to deceive. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English decepcioun, from Old French deception, from Late Latin dēceptiō, dēceptiōn-, from Latin dēceptus, past participle of dēcipere, to deceive; see deceive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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