MISAPPREHENSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misapprehension mean? 

• MISAPPREHENSION (noun)
  The noun MISAPPREHENSION has 1 sense:

1. an understanding of something that is not correct

  Familiarity information: MISAPPREHENSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISAPPREHENSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An understanding of something that is not correct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

misapprehension; mistake; misunderstanding

Context example:

there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister

Hypernyms ("misapprehension" is a kind of...):

misconception (an incorrect conception)

Derivation:

misapprehend (interpret in the wrong way)

 Context examples 

Here is some great misapprehension which must be rectified.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He might be jealous of her brother as a rival, but if more had seemed implied, the fault must have been in her misapprehension.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I cannot rest—I shall not have a moment's peace till this is explained—some dreadful misapprehension or other.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Don't think I came here looking for you, Theresa. Your vanity shall not be tickled by any such misapprehension. Our meeting is wholly fortuitous.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It had originated in misapprehension entirely.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

On rereading your letter it seems to us that you are laboring under the misapprehension that we pay for unsolicited manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

However, I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy; and as much for the manner in which it was said, as for the substance of the speech; the manner was frank and sincere; one does not often see such a manner: no, on the contrary, affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes, said Elinor, in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why or in what the deception originated.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That some kind of engagement had subsisted between Willoughby and Marianne she could not doubt, and that Willoughby was weary of it, seemed equally clear; for however Marianne might still feed her own wishes, SHE could not attribute such behaviour to mistake or misapprehension of any kind.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)