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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Misinterpretation \Mis'in*ter"pre*ta"tion\, noun The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
misinterpretation
noun: putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning" [syn: {misunderstanding}, {mistaking}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "misinterpretation": aberrancy, aberration, corruption, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, errancy, erroneousness, error, error in judgment, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, injudiciousness, misapplication, misappreciation, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconjecture, misconstruction, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misfeasance, misjudgment, misreading, misrepresentation, misuse, misvaluation, peccancy, perversion, poor judgment, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, skewed judgment, slanting, straining, torturing, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongness
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