Misconception

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English

Noun

Misconception (plural Misconceptions)
  1. a mistaken belief, a wrong idea

Adjectives for Misconception

dangerous; huge; unworthy; singular; complete; dreadful; harmful; definite; deliben, ate; studied.

Verbs for Misconception

dissipate—; expose to—; flounder in—; scent—; twist in—; —addles; —agitates; —be¬wilders; —confounds; —confuses; -—deludes; —distorts; —embarrasses; —endangers; —muddles; —perplexes; —torments; —tortures.

Thesaurus

abuse of terms, airy nothing, autism, bubble, catachresis, chimera, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, distortion, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, false belief, fault, faute, garbling, gloss, human error, ignis fatuus, illusion, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, perversion, pipe dream, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, squeezing, torturing, trick, trip, twisting, typo, typographical error, vapor, wrenching, wrong impression

Etymology

misconceive + -tion

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA: /ˌmɪskənˈsɛpʃən/