Misconstrue vs Delusion - What's the difference?
misconstrue | delusion |
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 .
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The state of being deluded or misled.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=William L. Shirer
, title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
, page=835
, publisher=Simon & Schuster
, location=New York
, isbn=0-671-72869-5
, id=LCCN 81101072
, passage=Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.}}
(Webster 1913)
