Stratagem vs Deception - What's the difference?
stratagem | deception | Related terms |
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.
As nouns the difference between stratagem and deception
is that stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception while deception is an instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.stratagem
English
Noun
(en noun)- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.