The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissemblance \Dis*sem"blance\, n. [Cf. F. dissemblance. See
Dissemble.]
Want of resemblance; dissimilitude. [R.]
--Osborne.
Dissemblance \Dis*sem"blance\, n. [Dissemble + -ance.] The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. (context countable English) An act of dissemble.
Usage examples of "dissemblance".
And after them Dissemblance, and SuspectMarcht in one rancke, yet an vnequall paire:For she was gentle, and of milde aspect,Courteous to all, and seeming debonaire,Goodly adorned, and exceeding faire:Yet was that all but painted, and purloynd,And her bright browes were deckt with borrowed haire:Her deedes were forged, and her words false coynd,And alwaies in her hand two clewes of silke she twynd.
Many dissemblances are mere differences of age, and those disparities between sister cities which are real are repeated in different parts of Europe.
The cultural subtleties behind that expression, the product of a species for whom emotional dissemblance is physically easy, would puzzle a gukuy.