Usually means: Incorrect understanding or interpretation; misconception.
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  1. misapprehension: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. misapprehension: Merriam-Webster
  3. misapprehension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. misapprehension: Collins English Dictionary
  5. misapprehension: Vocabulary.com
  6. misapprehension: Wordnik
  7. misapprehension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. misapprehension: Wiktionary
  9. misapprehension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. misapprehension: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Misapprehension, misapprehension: Dictionary.com
  12. misapprehension: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. misapprehension: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Misapprehension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. misapprehension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. misapprehension: Rhymezone
  17. misapprehension: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. misapprehension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. misapprehension: FreeDictionary.org
  20. misapprehension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. misapprehension: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misapprehension: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misapprehension: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.

Similar:
misunderstanding, mistake, misgrasp, misappreciation, misknowledge, miscomprehension, misperception, misconceivedness, illusion, misconception, more...

Types:
misunderstanding, misconception, delusion, illusion, notion, idea, more...

Phrases:
labor under a misapprehension, more...

Adjectives:
much, complete, total, common, entire, such, great, serious, possible, popular, strange
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Similar:
misunderstanding, mistake, misgrasp, misappreciation, misknowledge, miscomprehension, misperception, misconceivedness, illusion, misconception, more...

Types:
misunderstanding, misconception, delusion, illusion, notion, idea, more...

Phrases:
labor under a misapprehension, more...

Adjectives:
much, complete, total, common, entire, such, great, serious, possible, popular, strange



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