| 单词 | misconception |
| 释义 | misconception (once / 2861 pages) n A misconception is a conclusion that's wrong because it's based on faulty thinking or facts that are wrong. Your accusation about your brother's role in that unfortunate event at your party may be based on a misconception. First appearing in the 1660s, the noun misconception comes from the prefix mis-, meaning "bad, wrong," and the word conception, meaning "act of conceiving." A misconception usually results from incorrect thinking or a flawed understanding. Because they don't know the facts, many people have a misconception about how diseases such as AIDS are transmitted. It's a common misconception that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, when, in fact, he didn't. WORD FAMILYmisconception: misconceptions+/conceivable: conceivability, conceivableness, conceivably, inconceivable/conceive: conceivable, conceived, conceiver, conceives, conceiving, conceptive, misconceive, preconceive/conceived: ill-conceived/conceiver: conceivers/concept: conceive, conception, concepts, conceptual, conceptualize/conception: conceptional, conceptions/conceptual: conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptuality, conceptually/conceptualise: conceptualisation/conceptualism: conceptualistic/conceptualization: conceptualizations/conceptualize: conceptualization, conceptualized, conceptualizes, conceptualizing/inconceivability: inconceivabilities/inconceivable: inconceivability, inconceivableness, inconceivably/misconceive: misconceived, misconceives, misconceiving, misconception/preconceive: preconceived, preconceives, preconception/preconception: preconceptions USAGE EXAMPLESShe said there is “a lot of ignorance and misconceptions around transgender people.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) There is a very common misconception that all people with Down’s syndrome are the same. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) We worked well together several more times before I left the firm, because we succeeded in rectifying our misconceptions. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) n an incorrect conception Ant|Hypo|Hyper concept, conception, construct an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances fallacy, false belief a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning erroneous belief, errora misconception resulting from incorrect information self-deceit, self-deceptiona misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it misapprehension, mistake, misunderstandingan understanding of something that is not correct fancy, fantasy, illusion, phantasysomething many people believe that is false delusion, hallucinationa mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea miragesomething illusory and unattainable unsoundnessa misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid pseudosciencean activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions logical fallacya fallacy in logical argumentation pathetic fallacythe fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy sophism, sophistication, sophistrya deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone paralogisman unintentionally invalid argument bubblean impracticable and illusory idea ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wispan illusion that misleads wishful thinkingthe illusion that what you wish for is actually true disorientation, freak outa wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) idea, thought the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about |
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