From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
dissimulation \dis*sim'u*la"tion\, noun [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
Let love be without dissimulation. --Rom. xii. 9.
Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. --Bacon.
Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. --Tatler.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the act of deceiving [syn: {deception}, {deceit}, {dissembling}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissimulation": Tartuffe, cloaking, concealing, cunning, deceit, deception, dissemblance, dissembler, dissembling, dissimulator, double-dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy, lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee, pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham, whited sepulcher
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