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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupokrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrinomai, “I reply”), from ὑπό (hupo, “under, equivalent of the modern "hypo-" prefix”) + the middle voice of κρίνω (krinō, “I separate, judge, decide”).
hypocrisy (plural hypocrisies)
- the claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions, virtues or motivations that one does not actually possess. [from early 13th c.]
- applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.
- an instance of either of the above.
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Translations [edit]
Claim, pretense, or false representation of holding beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not actually possess
- Arabic: رياء (ar) (riyaa') m, نفاق (ar) (nifaaq) m
- Armenian: երեսպաշտություն (hy) (erespaštut’yun)
- Catalan: hipocresia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 虛偽 (cmn), 虚伪 (cmn) (xūwěi), 假惺惺 (cmn) (jiǎxīngxīng), (morally) 偽善 (cmn), 伪善 (cmn) (wěishàn)
- Czech: pokrytectví (cs) n, přetvářka (cs) f, lícoměrnost (cs) f
- Dutch: hypocrisie (nl)
- Esperanto: hipokriteco (eo) (in the abstract); hipokritaĵo (eo), hipokrito (eo) (a particular instance)
- Finnish: tekopyhyys (fi), ulkokultaisuus (fi)
- French: hypocrisie (fr) f
- German: Heuchelei (de) f
- Greek: υποκρισία (el) (ypokrisía) f
- Hebrew: צביעות (he) f
- Hindi: ढोंग (hi) (ḍhōṅg)
- Icelandic: hræsni (is) f, yfirdrepsskapur (is) m, uppgerð (is) f
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- Italian: ipocrisia (it) f
- Japanese: 偽善 (ja) (ぎぜん, gizen)
- Korean: 위선 (ko) (wiseon) (僞善 (ko))
- Macedonian: лицемерие (mk) (licemérie) n
- Norwegian: hykleri (no) n
- Persian: دورویی (fa)
- Polish: hipokryzja (pl) f
- Portuguese: hipocrisia (pt) f
- Romanian: ipocrizie (ro) f
- Russian: лицемерие (ru) (licemérije) n, ханжество (ru) (xánžestvo) n
- Serbo-Croatian: licemerje (sh), licemjerje (sh) n, licemerstvo (sh), licemjerstvo (sh) n, dvoličnost (sh) f, dvoličje (sh) n, himba (sh) f, hipokrizija (sh) f
- Slovene: dvoličnost (sl) f, licemerstvo (sl) n, licemerje (sl) n
- Spanish: hipocresía (es) f
- Swedish: hyckleri (sv) n
- Vietnamese: đạo đức giả (vi)
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