Fake vs Dissimulate - What's the difference?

Fake is a synonym of dissimulate.

As adjectives the difference between fake and dissimulate

is that fake is not real; false, fraudulent while dissimulate is feigning; simulating; pretending.

As verbs the difference between fake and dissimulate

is that fake is to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob or fake can be (nautical) to coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out while dissimulate is to practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.

As a noun fake

is something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently or fake can be (nautical) one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

fake

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775

Adjective

(en-adj)

Not real; false, fraudulent.

Which fur coat looks fake ?

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* genuine

Noun

(en noun)

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

A trick; a swindle.

(soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.

Synonyms

* (soccer move) feint, (ice hokey move) deke

Verb

(fak)

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)

To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

Synonyms

* (To modify fraudulently) adulterate * (To make a false display) pass off, pose

Derived terms

* fake out * faker

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), to coil a rope .

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Verb

(fak)

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

dissimulate

English

Verb

(en-verb)

To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.

* 1912 Booth Tarkington, The Flirt , 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.

To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.

Public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.

(rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.

* 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9:

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

* dissimulation

Adjective

(-)

Feigning; simulating; pretending.

(Henryson)

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