From Middle English decepcioun, from Old French decepcion, from Latin dēcipiō (“to deceive”).
deception (countable and uncountable, plural deceptions)
- An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
- deliberate deception
- pure deception
She got the money out of the tourist by deception.
instance of actions fabricated to mislead
- Albanian: mashtrim (sq) m
- Arabic: خِدَاع m (ḵidāʕ), خَدْع m (ḵadʕ)
- Armenian: խաբեբայություն (hy) (xabebayutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: aldatma
- Belarusian: падма́н m (padmán)
- Bengali: প্রবঞ্চনা (bn) (proboncona)
- Bulgarian: изма́ма (bg) f (izmáma), лъжа́ (bg) f (lǎžá) (lie), заблужде́ние (bg) n (zabluždénie) (delusion)
- Catalan: engany (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 騙局／骗局 (zh) (piànjú), 欺騙／欺骗 (zh) (qīpiàn), 欺詐／欺诈 (zh) (qīzhà)
- Czech: podvod (cs) m, klam (cs) m, balamucení n
- Danish: bedrag n
- Dutch: bedrog (nl) n, bedriegerij (nl) f, misleiding (nl) f
- Esperanto: trompo
- Estonian: pettus
- Finnish: petos (fi)
- French: supercherie (fr) f, tromperie (fr) f
- Galician: engano (gl) m, calote m
- Georgian: მოტყუება (moṭq̇ueba)
- German: Betrug (de) m, Betrügerei (de) f, Täuschung (de) f
- Greek: απάτη (el) f (apáti)
- Hebrew: אֲחִיזַת עֵינַיִם (he) f (aḥizát 'ēnáim), מִרְמָה f (mirma)
- Hindi: धोखा (hi) m (dhokhā), छल (hi) m (chal)
- Hungarian: megtévesztés (hu)
- Icelandic: blekking (is) f
- Irish: bréag (ga) f
- Italian: mistificazione (it) f, inganno (it) m, sotterfugio (it) m, raggiro (it) m, frode (it) f
- Japanese: ごまかし (ja) (gomakashi), いんちき (ja) (inchiki), 欺瞞 (ja) (giman), 欺騙 (ja) (gihen)
- Kazakh: алдау (aldau)
- Korean: 기만 (ko) (giman), 속임 (sogim), 사기 (ko) (sagi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بێ باوەڕی (bê bawerrî): چاوبەست (çawbest), فڕوفێڵ (frrufêll)
- Northern Kurdish: xapandin (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: алдоо (ky) (aldoo)
- Latin: captiō f, dolus m
- Latvian: maldināšana f
- Lithuanian: apgavystė f
- Macedonian: измама f (izmama)
- Malay: penipuan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bedrag (no) n
- Old English: ġedwolcræft m
- Persian: فریب (fa) (farib)
- Polish: oszustwo (pl) n, bałamuctwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: enganação (pt) f, engano (pt) m, logro (pt) m
- Romanian: decepție (ro) f, amăgire (ro) f
- Russian: обма́н (ru) m (obmán), ложь (ru) f (ložʹ) (lie), заблужде́ние (ru) n (zabluždénije) (delusion)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̏бмана f, пре̏вара f, прије̑вара f
- Roman: ȍbmana (sh) f, prȅvara (sh) f, prijȇvara (sh) f
- Slovak: podvod m
- Slovene: prevara (sl) f
- Spanish: engaño (es) m, socaliña (es) f, decebimiento, engañifla f, engañifa f
- Swedish: bedrägeri (sv) n
- Tajik: фиреб (tg) (fireb)
- Tatar: алдау (aldaw), алдак (tt) (aldaq)
- Thai: การหลอกลวง (th)
- Tocharian B: kuhākäññe, tārśi
- Turkish: kandırma (tr), yanıltma (tr), aldatma (tr)
- Turkmen: aldaw (tk)
- Ukrainian: обма́н m (obmán)
- Urdu: دھوکا m (dhokhā), فریب (farīb)
- Uyghur: ئالداش (aldash)
- Uzbek: aldash, firib (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự lừa dối (vi)
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