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Definition: DISSEMBLANCE |
DISSEMBLANCENoun1. The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation. 2. Want of resemblance; dissimilitude. |
Date "DISSEMBLANCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissimilarity | Noun: dissimilarity, dissimilaritude; unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance; divergence, variatioNoun: difference; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DISSEMBLANCE |
| Non-English Usage: "DISSEMBLANCE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (dissimilarity, imparity, inequality, odds). |
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Arabic | نفاق (cant, double dealing, duplicity, hypocrisy, insincerity, machiavellian, oiliness, pharisaism, priggishism, smoothness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несходство (dissimilarity, dissimilitude, diversity), преструване (affectation, disguise, make believe, pretence, pretension, sham, show, simulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dissimulation (dissimulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | különbözõség (dissimilarity, dissimilitude, imparity, unconformity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issemblanceday divergência (contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, discrepant, dispart, dissent, dissident, dissonant, divarication, divergency, divergent, earmark, impark, variance), dissemelhança (disparity, earmark, imparity), diferença (change over, chasm, contrast, deviation, difference, discriminative, distinction, earmark, variation), desigualdade (acerbity, difference, dissimilarity, dissimulate, earmark, imbecile, inequality, odds, roughness), desacordo (contrariety, deviation, difference, difficulties, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordant, friction tape, unconformity, variance), anatomista (anatomist). (various references) различие (difference, discrepancy, dissimilarity, distinction, diversity, inequality, otherness), притворство (affectation, affectations, airs, assumption, dissimulation, false pretences, feint, hypocrisy, make believe, make-believe, sham, simulation). (various references) simuliranje (malingering, pretending, simulation), licemerstvo (falseness, hypocrisy). (various references) disimulación (dissimulation, suppression). (various references) несхожість (difference, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distance, inequality, otherness), лицемірство (cant, disguise, double dealing, hypocrisy, jesuitism, pharisaism, puppetry, self-righteousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"DISSEMBLANCE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dissemblence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-i-l-m-n-s-s" | |
-2 letters: ascendible, lambencies, mescalines, semblances. | |
-3 letters: ambiences, assembled, balminess, baselines, dissemble, mandibles, medicable, mescaline, messaline, saliences, semblance. | |
-4 letters: abscised, abseiled, absences, acidness, alembics, ambience, amnesics, aniseeds, assemble, bailsmen, baldness, baseline, beadsmen, beamless, becalmed, bedesman, beladies, beldames, beslimed, beslimes, besmiled, besmiles, bimensal, calmness, cleansed, cleanses, dalesmen, debacles, decibels, decimals, declaims, declasse, declines, delaines, deniable, disables. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 53 45 4D 42 4C 41 4E 43 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... . -- -... .-.. .- -. -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001101 01000010 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S S E M B L A N C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0053 0045 004D 0042 004C 0041 004E 0043 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)384353533947364635483739 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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