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miscomprehension

noun

Etymology

From mis- + comprehension.

  1. derived from comprehēnsiō — “taking together”
  2. borrowed from compréhension
  3. prefixed as miscomprehension — “mis + comprehension”

Definitions

  1. An incorrect understanding of something.

    • Teachers testing with informal reading inventories (selected because of comprehension difficulty unrelated to word recognition) were asked to give explanations for the miscomprehensions of their students.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for miscomprehension. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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