DISSIMILITUDE Dis`si*mil"i*tude, n. Etym: [L. dissimilitudo, fr. dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.]
1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.
2. (Rhet.)
Defn: A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.
DISSIMULATE
Dis*sim"u*late, a. Etym: [L. dissimulatus, p. p. of dissimulare. See
Dissemble.]
Defn: Feigning; simulating; pretending. [Obs.] Henryson.
DISSIMULATE
Dis*sim"u*late, v. i.
Defn: To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
DISSIMULATION
Dis*sim`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.]
Defn: 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.