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Definition of Misconception
1. Noun. An incorrect conception.
Specialized synonyms: Fallacy, False Belief, Erroneous Belief, Error, Self-deceit, Self-deception, Misapprehension, Mistake, Misunderstanding, Fancy, Fantasy, Illusion, Phantasy, Delusion, Hallucination, Mirage, Unsoundness
Antonyms: Conception
Derivative terms: Misconceive
Definition of Misconception
1. n. Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.
Definition of Misconception
1. Noun. a mistaken belief, a wrong idea ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misconception
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misconception
Literary usage of Misconception
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Windthorst repeatedly maintained this character of the party against the
misconception formed of it by the papal Curia—a misconception due to incorrect ..."
2. The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality by Sidney Lanier (1914)
"... evidences of the complete misconception of form, of literary science, in our
literature : that, with a reluctance which every one will understand, ..."
3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"The misconception of the nature of induction implied in the above statements goes
along with a misconception of the ' axiom of the uniformity of nature. ..."
4. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"No doubt this difficulty, or at least part of it, arises not from any misconception
as to what Mind is, (for of this our knowledge is direct,) but from a ..."
5. Egypt by James Carlile McCoan, Wilfred C. Lay (1902)
"CHAPTER XV SLAVERY Popular misconception on this Subject—Difference between
Eastern and Western Slavery—Property in the Person almost the only Common ..."
6. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"... as uniformly comprehending in it the notion of some agent, without whom it
wouid bo nothing—though, but for the gene- r.il misconception on the subject, ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... from a misconception of the language of our decision in the case of the United
States against the same Company, reported in [98 U. В.]. ..."
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