What's the difference between imposter and imposture?

Imposter


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The details are a bit sketchy but I've just had it confirmed from Old Trafford that the people who were in Spain, apparently negotiating on their behalf for Ander Herrera, were not sent there by the club and can accurately be described as 'imposters'.
  • (2) The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones in hand, might have seemed an imposter a decade ago.
  • (3) US and Canadian oil policies, especially the tar sands schemes in Alberta, would increase the chances of global calamities, the imposters told their audience - but reassured them that the industry could keep "fuel flowing" by transforming the billions of people who died into oil.
  • (4) The feeling of being an imposter is definitely unnerving.
  • (5) The imposter phenomenon describes individuals who at times feel as if they are imposters in their chosen profession.
  • (6) "Facilitated by organised criminals, this typically involved invigilators supplying, even reading out, answers to whole exam rooms or gangs of imposters being allowed to step into the exam candidates' places to sit the test.
  • (7) Mansoor’s name first rose to public prominence in 2010 when western intelligence officials spent tens of thousands of dollars ferrying a “senior commander” to Kabul for peace talks, only to discover that they had been courting an imposter , a grocer pretending to be Mansoor.
  • (8) Manchester United missed out on signing the Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera not because the deal was hijacked by "imposters" , but due to their failure to understand the complexities of Spanish buy-out clauses.
  • (9) There is an overblown budget emergency to justify nasty imposts on low income earners.
  • (10) June 6, 2014 ( Note: There's a possibility that this tweet is actually not from the real Brian Scalabrine, but some Twitter imposter.
  • (11) They are seeing through him.” A spokesman for Ukip said the move had been made, in part, because imposters were using the Ukip logo on racist social media accounts in order to embarrass the party.
  • (12) Sissoko broke on several occasions and it was surprising to see how many of Tottenham’s players faded or made errors to infuriate Pochettino who complained that Spurs were virtual imposters after the interval, impossible to make out from their first-half display.
  • (13) Some famous people make the mistake of shunning social media or using false names, leaving the field open for imposters who can do serious damage.
  • (14) At times he confessed to her that "he felt like an imposter.
  • (15) But, with an election campaign possibly just days away, the statement was also a political document, careful to spare households from any direct imposts and including in its fine print several hundred million dollars in “decisions taken but not yet announced”.
  • (16) Finally, the most distinguishing characteristics were identity delusions, possession delusions, grandiose delusions (other than identities and possessions), and delusions that their families were imposters (Capgras Syndrome) reported by paranoid schizophrenics.
  • (17) Whenever his country had gone through a period of doubt “or nearly disappeared”, he said, France was always able “to drive out the imposters in power and replace them with people who really loved our country.” The audience cheered.
  • (18) However, it now seems the trio were imposters and had nothing to do with United at all.
  • (19) And Palmer himself is often accused of being something of an imposter, claiming grand feats that aren’t quite what they seem or don’t quite eventuate.
  • (20) Baird has acknowledged that the GST is regressive – that is, lower income earners are hit harder because the impost represents a greater share of their disposable income – so says an increase would have to be accompanied by a compensation package for households earning up to $100,000 a year.

Imposture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
  • (2) The authors suggest that disease simulation, peregrination, and imposture are secondary behavioral manifestations of pseudologia, which is deserving of additional study.
  • (3) Feelings of imposture within the CNS role can precipitate or exacerbate low self-esteem and lead to ineffective role implementation.
  • (4) Does a legal physician-patient relationship survive the imposturing of these patients?
  • (5) Imposture in a person undergoing analysis is, however, not only a function of individual character and psychopathology; it is also a function of certain inevitable requirements of the analytic situation which constitute a "pull" for its emergence.
  • (6) This paper deals with imposturous tendencies as ubiquitous and heterogeneous.
  • (7) Three case summaries illustrate the spectrum of imposturous tendencies.
  • (8) Quackery is characterized by the promotion of false and unproven health schemes for profit and does not necessarily involve imposture, fraud, or greed.