hipocresía

Concepts

hypocrisy

playing a part

unction

unctuousness

oleaginousness

fulsomeness

smarminess

oiliness

Synonyms

callado

falsedad

duplicidad

fariseísmo

sufrido

choro

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pesadez

doblez

exagerado elogio

bombo

untuosidad

Translations

hypocrisie

ipocrisia

Heuchelei

hipocrisia

hipocresia

υποκρισία

ipocrisia

cabotinage

huichelarij

Komödiantentum

istrionismo

fariseismo

hypocrisie

gesuitismo

Hyphenated as

hi‧po‧cre‧sí‧a

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ipokɾeˈsia/

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ῠ̔ποκρῑ́νομαι (hŭpokrī́nomai, “to reply”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under, hypo-”) + the middle voice of κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate, to judge, to decide”).