deception (n.)

• acting
• affectation
• appearance
• artifice
• autism
• befooling
• bluff
• bubble
• burial
• burying
• casuistry
• cheat
• cheating
• chicane
• chicanery
• chimera
• clouding
• color
• coloring
• concealment
• covering
• covertness
• cunning
• darkening
• daydream
• deceit
• deceptiveness
• delusion
• dirt
• disguise
• dishonesty
• dissembling
• dissimulation
• double-dealing
• dream
• dreamland
• dreamworld
• dupery
• duplicity
• equivocation
• facade
• face
• fake
• fakery
• falsity
• feigning
• feint
• flam
• fraud
• front
• gilt
• gloss
• guile
• gyp
• hallucination
• hiddenness
• hiding
• hoax
• humbug
• hypocrisy
• illusion
• imposture
• indirection
• interment
• intrigue
• invisibility
• knavery
• manipulation
• masking
• masquerade
• meretriciousness
• mirage
• misconception
• mystification
• occultation
• ostentation
• playacting
• pose
• posing
• posture
• pretense
• pretension
• pretext
• representation
• ride
• rip-off
• ruse
• screening
• secrecy
• secretion
• self-deceit
• self-deception
• sell
• semblance
• sham
• show
• simulacrum
• simulation
• sophism
• sophistry
• speciousness
• spoof
• spuriousness
• stratagem
• subterfuge
• tergiversation
• treachery
• trick
• trickery
• trip
• uncommunicativeness
• vapor
• varnish
• wile