different between wiliness vs trickery

English

wily +? -ness

wiliness (countable and uncountable, plural wilinesses)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Old French tricherie?”)

trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)

(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
- 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:
  The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.

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