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Disvalue vs Misvalue - What's the difference?

disvalue | misvalue |

As verbs the difference between disvalue and misvalue

is that disvalue is to regard something as having little or no value while misvalue is to value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.

As a noun disvalue

is harm, demerit.

disvalue

English

Verb

(disvalu)
  • To regard something as having little or no value
  • To undervalue; to depreciate.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

  • harm, demerit

    • misvalue

    English

    Verb

  • To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
  • * 1994 , Sheldon Saul Richmond, Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi , Rodopi, ISBN 905183618X, page 59,
    • Gombrich generalizes his argument: all norms of progress misvalue art by over-rating their own achievement, under-rating other styles, and by viewing previous styles as precursors to their own work.