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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Misconception \Mis'con*cep"tion\, noun Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. --Harvey.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
misconception
noun: an incorrect conception [ant: {concept}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "misconception": abuse of terms, airy nothing, autism, bubble, catachresis, chimera, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, distortion, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, false belief, fault, faute, garbling, gloss, human error, ignis fatuus, illusion, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, 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, pipe dream, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, squeezing, torturing, trick, trip, twisting, typo, typographical error, vapor, wrenching, wrong impression
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