Misconstrue vs Conflate - What's the difference?
misconstrue | conflate |
To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.
* 1975': ...,furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or '''misconstrued ,... - Paul Simon, ''50 Ways to Leave Your Lover'' from the album ''Still Crazy after All These Years .
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
As verbs the difference between misconstrue and conflate
is that misconstrue is to interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand while conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.As an adjective conflate is
combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.As a noun conflate is
a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.misconstrue
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(misconstru)Anagrams
*conflate
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(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.