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dissemblances

dissemblances is the plural of dissemblance.

Meaning of dissemblance

Noun

dissemblance (usually uncountable, plural dissemblances)

  1. (countable, usually) An act of dissembling.
    • Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition.2009 March 28, Edward Rothstein, “Catching Some Z’s in Days of Yore”, in New York Times
  2. (usually) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally.
    • With Mae West, coquettish dissemblance was out; womanly seductiveness was in.1980 December 22, Virginia Haradon, “Letters”, in Time
  3. (countable, usually) Dissimilarity, unlikeness.
    • As this latter animal [the sperm whale] is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.1849, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 11, in The Sea Lions

Questions about dissemblances

What is dissemblances the plural of?
Dissemblances is the plural of dissemblance.

Words near dissemblances in the dictionary

  1. disseizors
  2. disseizure
  3. disselboom
  4. disselbooms
  5. dissemblance
  6. dissemblances
  7. dissemble
  8. dissembled
  9. dissembler
  10. dissemblers
  11. dissembles

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