hipocresía
See also: hipocresia
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ῠ̔ποκρῑ́νομαι (hupokrī́nomai, “to reply”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under, hypo-”) + the middle voice of κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate, to judge, to decide”).
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Noun edit
hipocresía f (plural hipocresías)
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Further reading edit
- “hipocresía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014