Indirectness vs Dissemblance - What's the difference?
indirectness | dissemblance | Synonyms |
(countable) An act of dissembling.
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(uncountable) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally.
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(countable) Dissimilarity, unlikeness.
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Indirectness is a synonym of dissemblance.
As nouns the difference between indirectness and dissemblance
is that indirectness is the condition of being indirect while dissemblance is (countable) an act of dissembling.dissemblance
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Letters," Time :
- With Mae West, coquettish dissemblance was out; womanly seductiveness was in.
- As this latter animal [the sperm whale] is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.
The Greatest Miracle," Hawera & Normanby Star (New Zealand), p. 2 (retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):
- Moreover, at any season there is a difference between down grass and mountain grass, between sea grass and valley grass, between moor grass and wood grass. It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.