1. hypocrisy, pretense — The quality or act of hypocrisy, pretense, or dissimulation -- professing beliefs, virtues, or feelings that one does not actually hold or practice. All grammatical forms (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, singular, plural) denote the same abstract concept. Uniformly rendered across languages: Spanish 'hipocresía/hipocresías,' Arabic 'رِيَاءٌ/رِياءِ/بِالرِّياءِ/رياءٍ' (from the root ر-ي-ء for ostentation/pretense), Hindi 'पाखण्ड/पखन्द/कपट' (hypocrisy/deceit), Korean '위선/외식' (hypocrisy/outward show), Swahili 'unafiki/uasi' (hypocrisy/rebellion). The slight variation in Swahili (uasi = rebellion) reflects contextual nuance, not a distinct lexical sense. 6×
AR["بِالرِّياءِ","رياءٍ","ريائِهِم","رِياءَ","رِياءِ","رِيَاءٌ"]·ben["কপটতায়","ভণ্ডামি","ভণ্ডামিগুলি","ভণ্ডামিতে।","ভণ্ডামির","ভন্ডামি"]·DE["ὑποκρίσει","ὑποκρίσεις","ὑποκρίσεως","ὑπόκρισιν","ὑπόκρισις"]·EN["hypocrisies","hypocrisy","of-hypocrisy"]·FR["hypocrisie","ὑποκρίσει","ὑποκρίσεις"]·heb["צְבִיעוּיוֹת","צְבִיעוּת"]·HI["कपट","कपट-की","कपट-को","पअखन्द.","पखन्द","पाखण्ड"]·ID["kemunafikan","kepura-puraan"]·IT["upokrisei","upokriseis","upokriseos","upokrisin","upokrisis"]·jav["lamis","lamis,","lamis."]·KO["외식과","외식이니라","위선","위선들을","위선에.","위선을"]·PT["hipocrisia","hipocrisias,"]·RU["лицемерие","лицемерием","лицемерии","лицемерия","лицемерия,"]·ES["de-hipocresía","hipocresía","hipocresías"]·SW["uasi","unafiki"]·TR["ikiyüzlülük","ikiyüzlülükleri","ikiyüzlülükünü","ikiyüzlülüğünde","ikiyüzlülüğüne"]·urd["ریاکاری","ریاکاریاں،","منافقت","منافقت-سے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
ὑπό-κρῐσις, εως, ἡ, __I Ionic dialect (and perhaps in Refs 3rd c.AD+, reply, answer Refs 5th c.BC+ __II Attic dialect, playing a part on the stage, Refs 4th c.BC+ __II.2 an orator's delivery, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ κατὰ τὴν ὑ. ῥήτορες orators who depend on their delivery, opposed to to the authors of written speeches, Refs 4th c.BC+ __II.2.b tone or manner of an animal's cry, ὁ κυνηγέτης ἀπὸ τῆς ὑ.…