decipiency

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UK/dɪˈsɪpɪənsi/

noun

hallucination or deception.

OriginLatin decipiens →
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Meanings

noundecipiency (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablehallucination or deception.

    […]mean while Physicians, who know that many are mad but in a single depraved Imagination, and one prevalent Decipiency;[…]and tho they behold such mad covetous Passages, content to think they dye in good Understanding, and in their sober Senses.

    1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend

Origin

  1. Latindecipiens
  2. Englishdecipiency

From Latin decipiens, present participle of decipere. See deceive.

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