different between deceitfulness vs fraud

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???d/
• (US) enPR: frôd, IPA^(key): /f??d/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: fr?d, IPA^(key): /f??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

fraud (countable and uncountable, plural frauds)

1. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
3. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
4. A person who performs any such trick.
5. (obsolete) A trap or snare.

Synonyms

• swindle
• scam
• (criminal) deceit
• trickery
• hoky-poky
• imposture
• (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
• grift

Related terms

• defraud
• fraudulence
• fraudulent
• fraudulently
• fraudulentness
• insurance fraud
• mail fraud
• pious fraud
• wire fraud

Translations

Verb

fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)

1. (obsolete) To defraud

Translations

See also

• embezzlement
• false billing
• false advertising
• forgery
• identity theft
• predatory lending
• quackery
• usury
• white-collar crime

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fraud f

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by frau