Another Word For GASLIGHTING

gaslighter

Noun : One who engages in the psychological tactic of gaslighting.

Noun : One who, or that which, lights gas.

mind game

Noun : (games) A game or puzzle involving logical thinking.

Noun : (psychology) An attempt at using psychological manipulation against someone, in order to confuse them.

psychological projection

Noun : a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other.

equivocation

Noun : The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.

Noun : (logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.

contextomy

Noun : The act or practice of quoting somebody out of context, often to give a false impression of what they said.

parlour game

Noun : Any of a number of amusing games played indoors with few props by the members of a social gathering.

Noun : (politics, figuratively) The use of deliberately nebulous or confusing language.

doublespeak

Noun : Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

misconstruing

Noun : An instance of something being misconstrued; a misconstrual.

character assassination

Noun : (idiomatic) A malicious discourse designed to damage the reputation of someone.

mindfuck

Noun : (slang, vulgar) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates the mind of another person.

emotional blackmail

Noun : Psychological abuse of a person's emotions or insecurities in order to influence their behavior.

delusionist

Noun : A delusional person; one who believes something that is false.

denialist

Noun : (derogatory) One who denies an assertion in a controversial debate.

weasel word

Noun : (derogatory) A word used to hedge a statement, for example to make it vague, equivocal, or misleading.

Noun : (derogatory, dated) A word that negates or removes the meaning of the word it qualifies.

Verb : To use weasel words.

misconstruction

Noun : A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.

Noun : Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.

Noun : Other misconstrual or misinterpretation not necessarily hinging on missense of any particular word.

mischaracterization

Noun : The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way.

self-deception

Noun : The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.

semantic ambiguity

Noun : In linguistics, an expression is semantically ambiguous when it can have multiple meanings.

disinformation

Noun : False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.

Noun : Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content; intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.

hallucination

Noun : A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.

Noun : (artificial intelligence) A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation.

Noun : The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.

mental gymnastics

Noun : Difficult and complex logical thought processes, especially when performed effortlessly.

Noun : (derogatory) Inventive, complex arguments used to justify what is otherwise unjustifiable.

falsism

Noun : A claim that is self-evidently false, commonly used a rhetorical device.

false light

Noun : (idiomatic, countable) A point of view resulting in a misleading or inaccurate representation of a person, situation, or fact.

Noun : (law, uncountable) A cause of action arising under the common law where a person is portrayed in a way which, while not technically false, is misleading and likely to cause embarrassment to that person.

secondary victimization

Noun : The act of blaming the victim of a crime rather than the perpetrator.

mystifier

Noun : A person who obscures or muddles information, making something appear to be a mystery.

Noun : A situation that is puzzling, or mystifying

big lie

Noun : (often politics or public policy, often preceded by the) The policy or practice of insistently making a false claim which is so emphatic and grandiose that listeners and readers will reckon that the claim must be true because no one would dare to fabricate something so forceful and extravagant; a false claim produced by the application of this policy or practice.

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of big lie. [(often politics or public policy, often preceded by the) The policy or practice of insistently making a false claim which is so emphatic and grandiose that listeners and readers will reckon that the claim must be true because no one would dare to fabricate something so forceful and extravagant; a false claim produced by the application of this policy or practice.]

sarcasm

Noun : (uncountable) Use of acerbic language to mock or convey contempt, often using verbal irony and (in speech) often marked by overemphasis and sneering.

Noun : (countable) An individual act of the above.

false accusation of rape

Noun : A false accusation of rape happens when a person states that they or another person have been raped when no rape has occurred.

hyperbole

Noun : (uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

Noun : (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.

Noun : (countable, geometry, obsolete) A hyperbola.

periphrasis

Noun : The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".

Noun : (rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a type of circumlocution).

Noun : (linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.

confusion

Noun : The state of being confused; misunderstanding.

Noun : A lack of clarity or order.

Noun : The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.

false accusation

Noun : A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts.

misdirection

Noun : An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.

Noun : Movement or tendency in the wrong direction.

Noun : (UK, law) An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court.

mindfucker

Noun : (slang, vulgar, derogatory) Somebody who intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person.

bogeyman

Noun : A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.

Noun : (figuratively, by extension) Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract; a real threat greatly exaggerated for those purposes.

misinterpreter

Noun : A person who misinterprets, or makes misinterpretations

catachresis

Noun : A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.

Noun : (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.

Noun : (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.

charade

Noun : A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.

Noun : (uncommon) A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.

Noun : (crosswording) A form of wordplay where several words are placed together to form a new word or part thereof.

red herring

Noun : (figuratively) A clue, information, argument, etc. that is or is intended to be misleading, diverting attention from the real answer or issue.

Noun : (finance) A red herring prospectus.

Noun : A herring that is cured in smoke and brine strong enough to turn the flesh red; a typeof kipper.

verbal overshadowing

Noun : (psychology) The situation where considering something in verbal terms reduces one's visual or other memory of the thing.

falsehood

Noun : (countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.

Noun : (uncountable) The property of being false.

Noun : (archaic, rare) Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of lying.

obfuscation

Noun : (uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.

Noun : (uncountable) Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.

Noun : (countable) A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.

freudian slip

Noun : (psychology) A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires.

hysteria

Noun : Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.

Noun : (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.

Noun : (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.

name calling

Noun : Name-calling is a form of argument in which insulting or demeaning labels are directed at an individual or group.

neologism

Noun : (linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.

Noun : (linguistics, lexicography, countable, by extension) An existing word or phrase which has gained a new meaning.

Noun : (linguistics, uncountable) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.

delegitimation

Noun : The act of removing the legitimacy from something, or of making something illegitimate.

charientism

Noun : (rhetoric, rare) A figure of speech wherein an insult is disguised as or softened by a jest.

parlour trick

Noun : Synonym of party trick (“trick performed for entertainment”).

Noun : (figurative) A piece of trickery or falsehood, especially a trivial one.

mondegreen

Noun : (linguistics) A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language.

Noun : (rare) A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.

callout

Noun : An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.

Noun : (US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.

Noun : (communication) An outgoing telephone call.

gotcha

Noun : An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.

Noun : A potential problem or source of trouble.

Noun : An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.

bluffing

Noun : A bluff; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate.

fake news

Noun : Purported news stories with false or misleading information, deliberately created to disinform.

Noun : Satirical news stories, intended to amuse.

blame game

Noun : (informal, idiomatic) A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem.

backhanded compliment

Noun : (idiomatic) An insult disguised as a compliment; a compliment which can be interpreted as an insult.

slang

Noun : Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.

Noun : Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.

Noun : The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.

bill of goods

Noun : (business) A list of items purchased or offered for sale; (metonymic) the items themselves, as a collection or set.

Noun : (idiomatic) A set of misleading or deceptive claims.

head game

Noun : Skill at fellatio.

Noun : (informal) An attempt to psychologically manipulate or intimidate someone.

Noun : A mental pursuit or obsession.

fearmongering

Noun : The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.

detraction

Noun : A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.

Noun : The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.

Noun : (Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

non sequitur

Noun : A statement that does not logically follow a statement that preceded it.

Noun : (logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.

Noun : (narratology) Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.

innuendo

Noun : A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.

Noun : A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.

Noun : (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.

smoke

Noun : (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

Noun : (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.

Noun : (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

gibberish

Noun : Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.

Adjective : unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless

Noun : Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.

pathological liar

Noun : (psychology) A person who tells lies frequently and compulsively.

gullibility

Noun : The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.

sophist

Noun : (figurative) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.

Noun : (figurative, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.

Noun : One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.

verbal assault

Noun : (US, law) Oral or written speech that creates, or is intended to create, a fear of physical harm.

Noun : Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: an assault that is verbal.

conspiracy theorist

Noun : (chiefly derogatory) One who believes in, follows, or advances a conspiracy theory.

humbug

Noun : (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.

Noun : (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.

Noun : (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.

truthiness

Noun : (US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence.

Noun : (programming) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.

Noun : (rare, archaic) Truthfulness.

pseudologia fantastica

Noun : (psychology) compulsive lying (telling of falsehoods)

shoulding

Noun : The cognitive distortion of making statements of what should be true, as opposed to reality.

antiphrasis

Noun : (rhetoric) Use of a word or phrase in a sense opposite of its literal meaning, especially for ironic or humorous effect.

misunderstanding

Noun : A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.

Noun : A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.

panicmonger

Noun : A person who spreads panic among others, a fearmonger, a scaremonger.

melodramatization

Noun : The process or result of melodramatizing.

psycho

Noun : (chiefly derogatory, slang) A person who is psychotic, psychopathic, or (broadly) otherwise insane.

Noun : (chiefly derogatory, slang, loosely) A person who acts in a bizarre or dangerous manner.

Noun : (informal) A class, at a college or university, in which psychology is taught.

ad hominem

Noun : (informal) A personal attack.

Adjective : Of or relating to this kind of fallacious objection.

Verb : In an ad hominem manner.

projection

Noun : The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.

Noun : The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.

Noun : A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation

conspiracy theory

Noun : (dismissive, derogatory) Hypothetical speculation that is commonly considered untrue or outlandish.

Noun : (originally law) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see conspiracy, theory. A hypothesis that posits conspiracy or collusion.

dupery

Noun : The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.

sophism

Noun : (countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.

Noun : (uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.

Noun : (countable) An intentional fallacy.

bluff

Noun : (countable or uncountable) An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.

Noun : (poker, countable or uncountable) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.

Noun : (countable) One who bluffs; a bluffer.

truther

Noun : (by extension) A conspiracy theorist who does not believe the accepted story about some significant event, fact, etc.

Noun : (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone who believes that the US government was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

Noun : (US, colloquial) Someone who tells the truth.

womansplaining

Noun : (informal, derogatory) Condescending explanation of something by a woman, particularly to a man.

pretext

Noun : A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.

Verb : To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

suspicion

Noun : The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.

Noun : The condition of being suspected.

Noun : Uncertainty, doubt.

smear campaign

Noun : (idiomatic) An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.

blameshifting

Noun : Attempting to deflect guilt by moving attention to someone else.

hallucinator

Noun : One who experiences hallucinations.

Noun : One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

frivolous litigation

Noun : the use of legal processes with apparent disregard for the merit of one's own arguments.

scare-line

Noun : Alternative form of scare line. [A long rope, cable, or other line that is used to frighten fish into an area where they are more easily caught using other gear.]

paltering

Noun : Prevarication; dishonest bargaining, haggling.

double talk

Noun : Doublespeak.

Noun : Lies, especially in a formal political statement.

Noun : (telephony) A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.

projectionist

Noun : A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation at a movie theatre or drive-in theatre.

Noun : One who subscribes to the philosophy of projectionism.

heterogenium

Noun : (rhetoric) A change of subject to some irrelevant matter in order to distract the listener.

trollery

Noun : (Internet slang) Online behavior that is deliberately provocative or disruptive.

tergiversation

Noun : The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.

Noun : The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.

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