What is another word for misconception?
Synonyms for misconception
-kənˈsɛp ʃənmis·con·cep·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
misconception
Synonyms:
ignorance, illiteracy, inexperience, misapprehension, misunderstanding, rudeness, unfamiliarityAntonyms:
acquaintance, apprehension, cognition, cognizance, comprehension, erudition, experience, information, intelligence, intuition, knowledge, learning, light, lore, perception, recognition, scholarship, science, wisdom
Princeton's WordNet
misconceptionnoun
an incorrect conception
Antonyms:
concept, conception, construct
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List of paraphrases for "misconception":
misunderstanding, misperception, misapprehension, misinterpretation, fallacy
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#11981 | ignorance | |
#22960 | misunderstanding | |
#31640 | fallacy | |
#36938 | misconception | |
#38902 | illiteracy | |
#61152 | misinterpretation | |
#61866 | rudeness | |
#63840 | inexperience | |
#105795 | misperception | |
#121757 | unfamiliarity | |
#139927 | misapprehension |
How to use misconception in a sentence?
The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking
There's a misconception that we can recycle our way out of this, my fear is that (G20 leaders) will say that plastic production isn't the problem, it's waste management.
And there's a lot of good ideas and a lot of bad ideas that float through here. But it's, in my view, a misconception of the so-called special interests.
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
They are using their free speech to propagate misconception and to divide people along ethnic or religious lines, it is up to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority authorities to deal with these hateful groups.
Translations for misconception
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- مفهوم خاطئArabic
- Idea equivocadaSpanish
- 誤解Japanese
- Quan niệm sai lầmVietnamese
- 误解Chinese
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