Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

dissimulation

dissimulation , noun

[Latin dissimulatio: compare French dissimulation.]

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