different between cheating vs deceitfulness

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?t??/

Verb

cheating

1. present participle of cheat

Noun

cheating (countable and uncountable, plural cheatings)

1. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
   • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned

     the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade

2. (cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
   • 1965, Joseph V. Mascelli, The Five C’s of Cinematography.

     Cheating is the sixth C of Cinematography ... it is the art of arranging people, objects or actions, during filming or editing

Translations

Adjective

cheating (comparative more cheating, superlative most cheating)

1. Unsporting or underhand.
2. Unfaithful or adulterous.

See also

• Cheating in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• teaching

English

Etymology

From deceitful +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??si?tf?ln?s/

Noun

deceitfulness (usually uncountable, plural deceitfulnesses)

1. The state or quality of being deceitful.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII:

     O full off all sutelte and disseytfulnes the chylde off the devyll, and the enemye of all righteousnes thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes off the lorde.

   • 1903, Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, ch. 20 "A Moonlight Drive",

     The lanterns both rear and forward being always in sight, I was as much at sea as any one as to the length of the herd, knowing the deceitfulness of distance of campfires and other lights by night.

References

• deceitfulness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “deceitfulness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.