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misapprehension

noun

Etymology

From mis- + apprehension.

  1. borrowed from apprehensio
  2. prefixed as misapprehension — “mis + apprehension”

Definitions

  1. A failure to understand something

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

    • They had thought it obsolete, but, were relieved of this misapprehension by Yule’s friend Major Trotter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at misapprehension. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at misapprehension. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at misapprehension

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA