mistaken
adjective
wrongly conceived, held, or done.
mistakenness
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a word derived from
mistaken.
Example Sentences
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This is, of course, a regular feature of mysteries or else they’d all be over in five minutes, but there is an especially high level of mistakenness and misdirection here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
One almost blushes at having to explain, in a popular style, the mistakenness, to use the mildest word, of these objections.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
