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difference between deceit and deception

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What's the difference between deceit and deception?
  

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deceit The act or practice of deceiving; deception. A stratagem; a trick. The quality of being deceitful; falseness.

— Aperisic

  • deceit The act or practice of deceiving; deception.
  • A stratagem; a trick.
  • The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
  • Function: noun : deliberate and misleading concealment, false declaration, or artifice : DECEPTION <theft by deceit >; also : the tort of committing or carrying out deceit <an action for deceit > —see also FRAUD , MISREPRESENTATION deception The use of deceit.
  • The fact or state of being deceived.
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deceit

  1. The act or practice of deceiving; deception.

  2. A stratagem; a trick.

  3. The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
Function: noun
: deliberate and misleading concealment, false declaration, or artifice : DECEPTION<theft by d
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