Misconception
[mɪskən'sepʃ(ə)n] or ['mɪskən'sɛpʃən]
Definition
(n.) Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.
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Examples
- They soon got beyond the first crude popular misconception of Darwinism, the idea that every man is for himself alone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A misconception on your part, a very great misconception if I may venture to call it so, seems to require setting right. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It might be well to here correct the misconception which exists in the minds of many, that the use of air pressure for such purposes is something comparatively new. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And that misconception he may have shared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such is the power of imagination, and such the misconception in the public mind. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We see that he was bearing enmity and silly misconception with much spirit, aware that they were partly created by his good share of success. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The imitation of German patriotic misconceptions did not end with this Anglo-Saxon fabrication. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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