miscomprehension
- noun
- /ˌmɪsˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən/
:
malentendido
- As in the earlier discussions of other studies, it is useful to think in terms of the amount of miscomprehension encountered between two speakers whose functions differ.
Examples
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But sometimes there's a lot of miscomprehension about the topic.
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The silence of pain, miscomprehension, and violence.
Fiction book (2000) -
Throughout his analysis, Caplan provides evidence of both the altruism of voters and their fundamental miscomprehension of policies that result from this altruism.
Academic text (2014) -
This occasionally leads to frictions between the manifest narrative and its "real" subtext, which are either covered by the argument of miscomprehension or incomplete perception or attributed to the flaws of Oskar's memory.
Academic text (2009) -
Reading this work out of context can only lead to miscomprehension.
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She realized her miscomprehension of the instructions when she saw the final result.
Synonyms
243
1.6
When someone does not understand something correctly and this causes a problem
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4.2
An idea that is not true because people understand something wrongly
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1.8
A mistake when one thing is thought to be another
12
6.8
A wrong idea about something
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6.0
A wrong understanding of something that leads to wrong conclusions
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7.5
A wrong idea about what something means
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6.9
A feeling of not being able to understand something
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7.5
A wrong idea someone has about something
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8.3
A wrong idea about what someone said or meant
A wrong idea about what someone says or does
A wrong idea about something because a person did not understand it
A wrong understanding of what someone wrote or said
A lack of understanding of instructions or ideas
Antonyms
How Understood
Surface Forms
Morphology
miscomprehension = comprehension (transparent) = mis + comprehension
The prefix 'mis-' (wrong/incorrect) combines directly with 'comprehension' (understanding) to yield 'incorrect understanding', which is obvious to learners who know the parts.
Etymology
Miscomprehension joins mis-, a small word at the start that means 'wrong' or 'not', and comprehend, which means 'understand'. So a miscomprehension is a 'wrong understanding', which is why it means a failure to understand something correctly.