Disguise vs Feign - What's the difference?
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Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
* Macaulay
To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
* Spectator
To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
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To hide or conceal.
As verbs the difference between disguise and feign
is that disguise is to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity while feign is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.As a noun disguise
is attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.disguise
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''That cape and mask complete his disguise .
- ''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
Synonyms
* camouflage * guise * mask * pretenseVerb
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.
Synonyms
* cloak * mask * hideDerived terms
* disguisedly * disguisement * disguiserfeign
English
Verb
(en verb)- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
- Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.