misapprehension

Noun

Meaning

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

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When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death 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

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality. Randal Marlin

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. Daniel Day-Lewis

The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it. Robert Anton Wilson

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

He was grandiose. He was ruthless. He was a genius at a couple of things and under the misapprehension that it meant he was smart about everything. But in his mind, he was doing the right thing. Daniel Abraham

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