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Misconception synonyms

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delusion
(Psychiatry) A false, persistent belief maintained in spite of evidence to the contrary
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  1. (Psychiatry) A false, persistent belief maintained in spite of evidence to the contrary
  2. A false belief or perception strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness, as in schizophrenia.
  3. A false belief or opinion:
blunder
A foolish or stupid mistake
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  1. A foolish or stupid mistake
  2. A mistake typically caused by ignorance or carelessness.
fault
(Geology) A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture.
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  1. (Geology) A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture.
  2. Something that mars the appearance, character, structure, etc.; defect or failing
  3. A mistake; an error:
misunderstanding
A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception.
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  1. A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception.
  2. A disagreement or quarrel.
  3. A failure to understand; mistake of meaning or intention
Find another word for misconception. In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for misconception, like: misinterpretation, delusion, blunder, fault, error, mistake, misunderstanding, false impression, misapprehension, misinterpretation and misunderstanding.

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  • 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.

  • All this lavish condemnation rests on a complete misconception of the case.

  • 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.

  • The researches of the archaeologist are, in short, tending to reconstruct the primitive classical history; and here, as in the Orient, it is evident that historians of the earlier day were constantly blinded by a misconception as to the antiquity of civilization.

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