Dissimulator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who dissimulates.
  2. 2
    a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives wordnet

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Etymology

From Latin dissimulātor, from dissimulāre (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Equivalent to dissimulate + -or.

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