Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning or of a fact.
- noun Synonyms Misconception, misunderstanding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
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- noun a
failure tounderstand something; anillusion ,misconception ormisunderstanding
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an understanding of something that is not correct
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Examples
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This problem with misapprehension is very familiar, with overtones of those people (you know who you are) who think of the Internet as a bunch of "tubes," for example.
Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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A similar misapprehension is often attached to the statement “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”.
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
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This problem with misapprehension is very familiar, with overtones of those people (you know who you are) who think of the Internet as a bunch of "tubes," for example.
Borges: Pathways of the (Postmodern) Mind Heather McDougal 2009
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Such a misapprehension is perhaps especially acute when the character in question is presumed to be more or less autobiographical, but even characters not immediately associated with the writer him/herself are, if Zadie Smith is to be believed, mostly an opportunity for the author to indulge in "the attempted revelation of [an] elusive, multifaceted self" -- that is, his or her own "selfhood," the "development" of which is central to the act of writing.
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If a man can die through a misapprehension, is there any immorality in making him live through a misapprehension?
Chapter 17 1913
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If a man can die through a misapprehension, is there any immorality in making him live through a misapprehension?
Chapter 17 1911
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It has been suggested that British broadcasting corporations give the public what it thinks it should have and not what the public wants and that misapprehension is based upon this great fallacy-that if you are going to give the public what it wants you must not appreciate its view; you must depreciate it, and I am sure you will discover in Canada, as we have in Great Britain, that you must skillfully arrange and constantly raise your standard of program.
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Manifold errors have arisen from this misapprehension, which is far from the meaning of the apostolic injunction.
The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: III. The First Epistle of John, Practically Explained. 1789-1850 1870
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In time, the political establishment scrambled to respond, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness.
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In time the political establishment scrambled to respond, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness.
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