What is another word for misapprehension?

Pronunciation: [mɪsˌapɹɪhˈɛnʃən] (IPA)

Misapprehension is a word that describes a misunderstanding of something. There are several synonyms for this word, such as misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding and a false impression. A misconception is an incorrect or mistaken idea that someone has about something that is not based on fact. A misinterpretation refers to the incorrect understanding or interpretation of something. A misunderstanding refers to a failure to understand something correctly or properly. A false impression is a mistaken or misunderstood belief about something that is not accurate. These synonyms for misapprehension all suggest that there has been an error or mistake in understanding something, and that the idea or belief is not correct.

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What are the hypernyms for Misapprehension?

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What are the hyponyms for Misapprehension?

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What are the opposite words for misapprehension?

Misapprehension is a term that refers to misunderstanding or confusion about something. The antonyms for this word are understanding, comprehension, and perception. Understanding is the ability to comprehend the meaning of something, while comprehension is the act of grasping the meaning of a concept or idea. Perception refers to the ability to interpret or comprehend sensory information. The opposite of misapprehension is to understand something correctly, grasp the meaning accurately or correctly interpret the situation. In a world where communication is key, it is important to ensure that one has a clear understanding and perception of the topic at hand.

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Usage examples for Misapprehension

Let me say, at once, to avoid misapprehension, that I refer here to the majority of the Anglicised versions of foreign libretti.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
I didn't want to leave you under a misapprehension.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
See here, Mister, you're under a misapprehension.
"Command"
William McFee

Famous quotes with Misapprehension

  • There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'
    Charles Francis Richter
  • Very seldom, only in rare moments of clarity, only after ages of misapprehension, did a few of them, here and there, now and again, begin to have the deeper insight into the world’s nature and man’s. And no sooner had this precious insight begun to propagate itself, than it would be blotted out by some small or great disaster, by epidemic disease, by the spontaneous disruption of society, by an access of racial imbecility, by a prolonged bombardment of meteorites, or by the mere cowardice and vertigo that dared not look down the precipice of fact.
    Olaf Stapledon
  • When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.
    Peter Wessel Zapffe
  • Only the misapprehension that [Paglia] can be wise like lightning could explain her brief appearance, in , to tell us that the cultural artefact in question was 'an epochal moment in the history of modern sexuality.' On the contrary, it was a moronic moment in the history of exploitation movies made by people so untalented that they can't even be convincing when they masturbate.
    Clive James
  • The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind—yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy. … The whole basis of religion is a symbolic emotionalism which modern knowledge has rendered meaningless & even unhealthy. Today we know that the cosmos is simply a flux of purposeless rearrangement amidst which man is a wholly negligible incident or accident. There is no reason why it should be otherwise, or why we should wish it otherwise. All the florid romancing about man's "dignity", "immortality", &c. &c. is simply egotistical delusions plus primitive ignorance. So, too, are the infantile concepts of "sin" or "right" & "wrong". Actually, organic life on our planet is simply a momentary spark of no importance or meaning whatsoever. Man matters to nobody except himself. Nor are his "noble" imaginative concepts any proof of the objective reality of the things they visualise. Psychologists understand how these concepts are built up out of fragments of experience, instinct, & misapprehension. Man is essentially a machine of a very complex sort, as La Mettrie recognised nearly 2 centuries ago. He arises through certain typical chemical & physical reactions, & his members gradually break down into their constituent parts & vanish from existence. The idea of personal "immortality" is merely the dream of a child or savage. However, there is nothing anti-ethical or anti-social in such a realistic view of things. Although meaning nothing , mankind obviously means a good deal . Therefore it must be regulated by customs which shall ensure, , the full development of its various accidental potentialities. It has a fortuitous jumble of reactions, some of which it instinctively seeks to heighten & prolong, & some of which it instinctively seeks to shorten or lessen. Also, we see that certain courses of action tend to increase its radius of comprehension & degree of specialised organisation (things usually promoting the wished-for reactions, & in general removing the species from a clod-like, unorganised state), while other courses of action tend to exert an opposite effect. Now since man means nothing to the cosmos, it is plan that his only logical goal (a goal whose sole reference is to ) is simply the achievement of a reasonable equilibrium which shall enhance his likelihood of experiencing the sort of reactions he wishes, & which shall help along his natural impulse to increase his differentiation from unorganised force & matter. This goal can be reached only through teaching individual men how best to keep out of each other's way, & how best to reconcile the various conflicting instincts which a haphazard cosmic drift has placed within the breast of the same person. Here, then, is a practical & imperative system of ethics, resting on the firmest possible foundation & being essentially that taught by Epicurus & Lucretius. It has no need of supernatualism, & indeed has nothing to do with it.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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