Impersonate vs Disguise - What's the difference?
impersonate | disguise |
To pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of.
(obsolete) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.
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 transitive terms the difference between impersonate and disguise
is that impersonate is to pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of while disguise is to avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.As a noun disguise is
attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.impersonate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The conman managed to impersonate several executives.
Synonyms
* (assume identity of) personate * (manifest in corporeal form) embodyDerived terms
* impersonation * impersonatordisguise
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.