The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true. [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Counterfeiting; feint; pretense.

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THESAURUS

simulation

accordance, acting, adoption, affectation, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, appearance, approach, appropriation, approximation, assimilation, assumption, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, borrowed plumes, cheating, closeness, color, coloring, community, comparability, comparison, conformity, copying, correspondence, counterfeiting, deception, delusion, derivation, deriving, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, emulation, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, following, forgery, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, hit-off, humbug, humbuggery, identity, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, infringement, likeness, likening, masquerade, meretriciousness, metaphor, mimesis, mimicking, mirroring, mocking, nearness, onomatopoeia, ostentation, outward show, parallelism, parity, parody, pasticcio, pastiche, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, repetition, representation, resemblance, sameness, seeming, semblance, sham, show, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, speciousness, takeoff, taking, varnish, window dressing

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ROGET THESAURUS

simulation

Imitation

N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Falsehood

N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.

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