deceit meaning
EN
[dɪˈsiːt] [-iːt] 
US - NounPLdeceitsPREdé-
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
Definition of deceit in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en deceitful
- en deceitfully
- en deceits
- en deceitless
- en deceitfull
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "deceit" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.