To dissimulate is to hide your real feelings by pretence. Dissimulate his anger, learn to dissimulate, dissimulate skilfully.
It is the exact partner of simulate: to simulate is to show what is not there and to dissimulate is to hide what is. The pair was a favourite of Renaissance writers on court life, where both were considered necessary skills.
1verbdissimulateTo hide your real feelings by pretence.
“She smiled politely, dissimulating her anger until the guests had gone.”
dissimulate is a concealing.
Latin dissimulare means to conceal — dis, apart, plus simulare, to make like, from similis, like.
Proto-Indo-European
*sem-
Latin
dissimulātus
Middle English
dissimulaten
English, today
dissimulate
Built from
Middle English dissimulaten, from Latin dissimulātus + -en (“verb-forming suffix”), perfect passive participle of dissimulō (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) (see -ate), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -ō. Compare the obsolete dissimule (“to conceal, disguise”), from Old French dissimuler (French dissimuler), ultimately from the same Latin root. a doublet of dissemble and dissimilate and dissimule.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA