MEANING
The hiding of what one really feels, intends, or believes.
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- careful dissimulation
- practiced dissimulation
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Careful dissimulation kept her resentment outside the conversation.
He relied on practiced dissimulation whenever loyalty was mentioned.
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Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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