Dissimulate vs Disguise - What's the difference?
dissimulate | disguise |
To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.
* 1912 Booth Tarkington, The Flirt ,
To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.
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(rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
* 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9:
Feigning; simulating; pretending.
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
In lang=en terms the difference between dissimulate and disguise
is that dissimulate is to hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance while disguise is to avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.As verbs the difference between dissimulate and disguise
is that dissimulate is to practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance while disguise is to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.As an adjective dissimulate
is feigning; simulating; pretending.As a noun disguise is
attire (eg clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.dissimulate
English
Verb
(en-verb)Chapter 13
- But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation -- and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.
- Public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.
- That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.
Derived terms
* dissimulationAdjective
(-)- (Henryson)
References
* ----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.