masquerading
Posing as another
Masquerading is pretending to be something you're not, typically to deceive.
Someone masquerading as a doctor lacks medical credentials.
A wolf masquerades in sheep's clothing.
The word carries connotations of deliberate disguise: The email was malware masquerading as a security update.
In computing, masquerading refers to a device presenting itself with a different identity on a network.
impersonation
Pretending to be another
imposture · posing · cover · subterfuge · feigning · sham · fakery · concealment · guise · duplicity
- insincerityinsincerity, phoniness, fakeness, falseness, pretense
- actingacting, act, performing, playacting, actor
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- posesstanding pose, sitting pose, seated pose, kneeling pose, reclining pose
- stealthsneak, ninja, creep, spy, skulk
CONCEALMENT vs. REVELATION
masqueradingrevealing
Making known what's hidden
unmasking · exposing · uncovering · disclosing · unveiling
disguise, unmask, masked, masquerade, masking, masquerader, masquerades, masqueraded, masker