The act or practice of faking something; tricks and deception used to fool people.
From 'fake' plus the suffix '-ery' (meaning the practice or result of an action). This suffix was borrowed from Old French and is common in English nouns like 'bravery' and 'trickery'.
Fakery became a major literary and philosophical theme in the 1800s as mass production allowed identical objects to be copied—suddenly 'real' became harder to define than ever before.
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