and hypocrisy, people always confuse Irony with it
Definition of HYPOCRISY1. : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially: the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
Definition of IRONY1. : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony
2. a: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
b: a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony
c: an ironic expression or utterance
3. a (1): incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2): an event or result marked by such incongruity
b: incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play —called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
How does one confuse these two terms?