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misimagination

noun

Etymology

From mis- + imagination or misimagine + -ation.

  1. derived from imāginātiō
  2. derived from imaginacion
  3. inherited from ymaginacioun
  4. prefixed as misimagination — “mis + imagination”

Definitions

  1. Wrong imagination

    Wrong imagination; delusion.

    • Who can without indignation look upon the prodigies which this misimagination produces in that other sex; to the shame of their husbands, the scorn of religion, the damnation of their own souls?
    • When politics, with all the misimaginations of self it implies, is no longer a strong enough figure of antagonism, the old dialectic can only be transformed into a confrontation between the solitary self and death.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misimagination. 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