Misconception Synonyms and Antonyms

mĭskən-sĕpshən
A failure to understand correctly
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. false impression
  2. misapprehension
  3. misinterpretation
  4. misunderstanding

Words Related to Misconception

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. understand
  2. misperception
  3. myth

Misconception Sentence Examples

  • For several centuries it was wholly lost sight of, and it was not till the 13th century that it was rediscovered through the agency of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, who translated it into Latin, under the misconception that it was a genuine work of the twelve sons of Jacob, and that the Christian interpolations were a genuine product of Jewish prophecy.

  • It is a common misconception that candle making is a dangerous hobby.

  • But later Jewish exegesis was especially concerned to eliminate everything in the sacred writings that might give rise to misconception with respect to God on the part of the unlearned.

  • The hypothesis that the Eudemian Ethics, and by consequence the Magna Moralia, are later than Aristotle has arisen from a simple misconception, continued in a Scholium attributed to Aspasius, who lived in the 2nd century A.D.

  • This is clearly a misconception.

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