misappreciation
English
Etymology
mis- + appreciation
Noun
misappreciation (countable and uncountable, plural misappreciations)
- A failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.
- It is the duty of the individual juror to strive to avoid any misappreciation of the evidence, no matter how it is represented by the barristers.
- Although he claims to be a postmodernist, his misappreciation of the philosophy is such that he still clings to the idea of absolute truth.
- 1849, Alexis de Tocqueville, Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2:
- I accuse you rather of misappreciation than of misstatement.
- 1995, Alan J. Levine, The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1945-1975, page 128:
- The notion that keeping half a million men in South Vietnam indefinitely was a credible posture must be one of the most laughable misappreciations of the war.
- (dated) An observed failure to appreciate the proper worth of a person, an act or a thing.
- 1871, William Dean Howells, Their Wedding Journey:
- "He might not have meant to ignore her," answered Isabel thoughtfully; "he might have chosen not to introduce her because he felt too proud of her to subject her to any possible misappreciation from them."
- 1909, Anna Katharine Green, The Forsaken Inn:
- But it is the lot of goodness and truth ever to meet with misappreciation and disdain.
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Synonyms
- (failure to understand): misunderstanding, misapprehension; error, mistake
- (failure to appreciate): scorn, disdain, despisement
Related terms
- disappreciation
- misappreciate