misperception

[mis-per-sep-shuhn]

noun

1. an act of understanding or perceiving something incorrectly; an incorrect understanding or perception.

Example Sentences

And interestingly, our misconception might actually fuel our misperception.

From Slate

“Cuts at the National Park Service, for example, don’t affect the park concessionaires — and those companies run most of the visitor-facing services, such as lodging, dining, shuttle services and much more. The misperception of chaos at the parks is a PR issue that can have real consequences.”

From Los Angeles Times

As he saw it, public understanding of depression as a chemical imbalance is vague, a “mishmash of buzzwords,” he wrote, and Moncrieff had used that misperception to attack the validity of antidepressants themselves.

From Salon

The knives in her stare let them see the danger in that cocky misperception.

From Salon

Lindbergh loathed politics, but he was the world’s foremost expert on air power, and he felt obliged to correct the common misperception that planes had rendered America suddenly vulnerable to foreign attack.

From Salon