Noun

(en noun)

a failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding

Noun

(en noun)

A failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.

It is the duty of the individual juror to strive to avoid any misappreciation of the evidence, no matter how it is represented by the barristers.

Although he claims to be a postmodernist, his misappreciation of the philosophy is such that he still clings to the idea of absolute truth.

*{{quote-book, year=1849, author=Alexis de Tocqueville, title=Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I accuse you rather of misappreciation than of misstatement. }}

*{{quote-book, 1995, Alan J. Levine, The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1945-1975 citation

, passage=The notion that keeping half a million men in South Vietnam indefinitely was a credible posture must be one of the most laughable misappreciations of the war.}}

(dated) An observed failure to appreciate the proper worth of a person, an act or a thing.

*{{quote-book, year=1871, author=William Dean Howells, title=Their Wedding Journey, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="He might not have meant to ignore her," answered Isabel thoughtfully; "he might have chosen not to introduce her because he felt too proud of her to subject her to any possible misappreciation from them." }}

*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Anna Katharine Green, title=The Forsaken Inn, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But it is the lot of goodness and truth ever to meet with misappreciation and disdain. }}