misappreciation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is the duty of the individual juror to strive to avoid any misappreciation of the evidence, no matter how it is represented by the barristers."
- "Although he claims to be a postmodernist, his misappreciation of the philosophy is such that he still clings to the idea of absolute truth."
- "I accuse you rather of misappreciation than of misstatement."
- "The notion that keeping half a million men in South Vietnam indefinitely was a credible posture must be one of the most laughable misappreciations of the war."
- ""He might not have meant to ignore her," answered Isabel thoughtfully; "he might have chosen not to introduce her because he felt too proud of her to subject her to any possible misappreciation from them.""
- "But it is the lot of goodness and truth ever to meet with misappreciation and disdain."
Etymology
From mis- + appreciation.
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Frequently Paired Words
disappreciation
misappreciate