单词 | misdirectedness |
释义 | misdirectednessn. The condition, quality, or fact of being misdirected; misguidedness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > [noun] > leading into error > state of being misled mistakableness1665 misguidedness1809 misdirectedness1951 1951 Jrnl. Philos. 48 813 It is only when the logical function of sense-data..is made explicit that the misdirectedness of this effort becomes evident. 1965 A. Farrer in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 38 The primary function of mental pain, says Lewis, is to force our misdirectedness on our attention. 1988 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 82 626/2 Any reader who accepts Abbott's thesis about the misdirectedness of past U.S. social inventiveness will look upon his remedies with a good deal of skepticism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1951 |
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