Noun
misappraisal (countable and uncountable, plural misappraisals)
A bad or inaccurate appraisal.
We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell. Roberto Bolaño