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Imitation vs Dissemble - What's the difference?

imitation | dissemble |

As a noun imitation

is imitation.

As a verb dissemble is

to disguise or conceal something.

imitation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of imitating.
  • A copy.
  • Antonyms

    * (act of imitating) creation

    dissemble

    English

    Verb

    (dissembl)
  • To disguise or conceal something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
  • * J. P. Kemble
  • Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
  • To feign.
  • * 1681 , John Dryden,
  • And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
    Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.
  • * Tatler
  • He soon dissembled a sleep.
  • To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
  • To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
  • * XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace
  • While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
    To seeming sadness she composed her look;
    As if by force subjected to his will,
    Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.