<p><strong>noun, plural duplicities</strong></p><ul><li>deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter;</li><li>double-dealing.</li><li>Synonyms:<ul><li>trickery,</li><li>hypocrisy,</li><li>guile,</li><li>fraud,</li><li>dissimulation,</li><li>deception,</li><li>deceit.</li></ul></li><li>Antonyms:<ul><li>straightforwardness,</li><li>directness,</li><li>candidness,</li><li>honesty.</li></ul></li><li>an act or instance of such deceitfulness.</li><li>Law: the act or fact of including two or more offenses in one count, or charge, as part of an indictment, thus violating the requirement that each count contain only a single offense.</li><li>the state or quality of having two elements or parts;</li><li>being twofold or double.</li></ul>