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Legerdemain vs Charlatan - What's the difference?

legerdemain | charlatan |

As nouns the difference between legerdemain and charlatan

is that legerdemain is sleight of hand; "magic" trickery while charlatan is charlatan, quack.

As an adjective charlatan is

said of someone who talks frivolously.

legerdemain

English

Noun

(wikipedia legerdemain) (-)
  • Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
  • *:For he in slights and jugling feates did flow, / And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know.
  • A show of skill or deceitful ability.
  • *1673 , Gilbert Burnet, The mystery of iniquity unvailed , London, p. 128:
  • *:Certainly, that they are to this day so rife in Italy and Spain, and so scant in Britain, is a shrewd ground to apprehend Legerdemain, and forgery, in the accounts we get of their later Saints.

    • Synonyms

    * prestidigitation * sleight of hand

    charlatan

    English

    (wikipedia charlatan)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

    • Synonyms

    * swindler * mountebank * fraudster * con-artist * conman * imposter, impostor * fraud * phony * fake * See also

    Related terms

    * charlatanism * charlatanry