Hypocrisy Noun; the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which ones own behavior does not conform; pretense, from old French ypocrisie, via ecclesiastical or church Latin from greek hupokrisis ' acting of a theatrical part, from hupokrinesthai play a part, pretend, from hupo under+ krinein decide, judge. Hypocrisy usually implies a gap or difference between what one says and What one doesHypocrisy • Noun; the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense; from Old French ypocrisie, via ecclesiastical or church Latin, from Greek hupokrisis ‘acting of a theatrical part,’ from hupokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend,’ from hupo ‘under’ + krinein ‘decide, judge.’ Hypocrisy usually implies a gap or difference between what one says and what one does