Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mistaken thought, idea, or notion; a misunderstanding: had many misconceptions about the new tax program.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Erroneous conception; false opinion; misunderstanding.
- n. Synonyms Misunderstanding, misapprehension, mistake.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an incorrect conception
Etymologies
- misconceive + -tion (Wiktionary)
Examples
“President Swain was so galled that he made an elaborate reply to what he called misconception and misrepresentations.”
“Sultan Azlan Shah has spoken on the need to correct what he described as the misconception that the constitutional monarchy was just a symbol devoid of power.”
“Another common misconception is that adequate commercial technologies simply do not exist.”
The Huffington Post: David Shepler: What Does It Take to Achieve a Net-Zero-Energy Home?
“A common misconception is that nothing grows back once rainforest is cut.”
“USCKitty-the great misconception is “what would laborers do without the unions”.”
“The most common misconception is that the second flag raising was staged.”
“However, The misconception is too widespread for that to be the only cause.”
“The basic misconception is that tax structures are in any way rational.”
Why Do Sales Taxes Exist?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The misconception is that you get a better workout in the gym," explains trainer Jennifer Cohen, author of No Gym Required.”
“With Hillary's return to Bosnia this week, I also found myself in-country, exploring a land that is wreathed in misconception and myth.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misconception’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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mis-
wrongly; badly; unsuitably
misname, mismanage, misapply, misanthrope, miscalculate, mistake, mistook, misstep, misdirect, misfortune, misadventure, misalign and 22 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 116
gallop, Galloping Gourmet, accent, monsieur, tuck, jelly, locker, outgoing, eats, Student Union, commitment, obsequious and 17 more...
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GRE 3500 M
machinations, madrigal, maladroit, malady, malaise, malapropism, malcontent, malediction, malefactor, malfeasance, malingerer, mannered and 54 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for misconception.
yarb I disagree with Cole, because what makes no difference to one person might make a difference to another; truth isn't relative, but its application is. Indifference, meanwhile, is a beneficial quality in an arbiter (or "discoverer") of truth. Nov 30, 2007
mollusque Surprised this wasn't listed by anyone before. I was using it as a vehicle for
"What a strange misconception has been taught to people....that one cannot be disciplined enough to discover the truth unless one is indifferent to it....there is no point in looking for the truth unless what it is makes a difference."
--in K. C. Cole, "The Scientific Aesthetic", Discover 4(12): 54, 63 Nov 30, 2007