duplicity

English

Etymology

From Latin duplicare (double). Equivalent to duplex +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈplɪ.sɪ.ti/, /dju-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

duplicity (countable and uncountable, plural duplicities)

1. Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
2. The quality of being double or twofold.
   • 1982, H. B. Barlow, J. D. Mollon, Senses (page 104)

     For instance the rod-cone 'duplicity' of retinal function was first enunciated by the German microscopist Max Schultze in 1866 […]

Related terms

• duplicitous
• dupe

Translations

intentional deceptiveness

• Bulgarian: двойственост (bg) f (dvojstvenost), двуличие (bg) n (dvuličie)
• Catalan: duplicitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 表裡不一 / 表里不一 (zh) (biǎolǐbùyī), 口是心非 (zh) (kǒushìxīnfēi)

• Dutch: dubbelspel (nl), dubbelhartigheid (nl), huichelarij (nl)
• Finnish: kaksinaamaisuus (fi)
• French: duplicité (fr) f, double jeu (fr) m
• German: Doppelspiel (de) n, Doppelzüngigkeit f, Duplizität (de) f
• Greek: διπροσωπία (el) f (diprosopía)
• Italian: doppiezza (it) f
• Japanese: 二枚舌 (ja) (にまいじた, nimaijita), 二心 (ja) (にしん, nishin, ふたごころ, futakokoro)
• Maori: raurekatanga
• Polish: dwulicowość (pl) f
• Portuguese: duplicidade (pt) f
• Russian: двули́чность (ru) f (dvulíčnostʹ), двули́чие (ru) n (dvulíčije), дво́йственность (ru) f (dvójstvennostʹ)
• Spanish: duplicidad (es) f
• Turkish: düzenbazlık (tr), ikiyüzlülük (tr)

See also

• double-cross