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Circumvention vs Gimmick - What's the difference?

circumvention | gimmick |

As nouns the difference between circumvention and gimmick

is that circumvention is the act of evading by going around (bypassing) while gimmick is a trick or device used to attain some end.

As a verb gimmick is

to rig or set up with a trick or device.

circumvention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
  • The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
    • A school in which he learns sly circumvention . --.

    gimmick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trick or device used to attain some end.
    • The box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.
  • * April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
    • Epperlein and Tucker focus on two featherweight hopefuls: Dustin Poirier, a formidable contender who’s looking to parlay a history of schoolyard violence and street-fighting into a potential career, and Albert Stainback, a more thoughtful yet more erratic and undisciplined fighter whose chief gimmick is entering the ring wearing a hat like the one Malcolm McDowell wore in A Clockwork Orange .
  • A clever ploy or strategy.
    • The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list.

    Derived terms

    * gimmicky * gimmickry

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To rig or set up with a trick or device.
    • The magician's box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own.