Dissimulation

Noun

 * 1) The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
 * 2) Hiding one's feelings or purposes.

Adjectives
polite; deft; practiced; splendid; skilled.

Thesaurus
Tartuffe, cloaking, concealing, cunning, deceit, deception, dissemblance, dissembler, dissembling, dissimulator, double-dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy, lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee, pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham, whited sepulcher

Etymology
From dissimulatio:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: преструвка, лицемерие


 * Greek: συγκάλυψη, απόκρυψη

Related terms

 * dissimulate