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means The practice of faking something — presenting a false thing as genuine, whether it's a feeling, a skill, or a Rolex.

from Built from 'fake' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ery' (the same pattern as 'trickery' or 'knavery'). 'Fake' itself is older and murkier than you'd expect — it surfaces in 18th and 19th-century English criminal slang, possibly tied to 'feak' or 'feague,' old dialect and thieves'-cant terms meaning to fix up or doctor something — spuce up a worn-out item, or a worn-out story, so it passes for the real thing. The word kept the con-artist's fingerprints on it ever since.