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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Misapprehension \Mis*ap'pre*hen"sion\, noun A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
misapprehension
noun: an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister" [syn: {mistake}, {misunderstanding}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "misapprehension": abuse of terms, catachresis, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, distortion, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, fault, faute, garbling, gloss, human error, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, perversion, squeezing, torturing, twisting, typo, typographical error, wrenching
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