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Misunderstanding vs Misappreciation - What's the difference?

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Misunderstanding is a synonym of misappreciation.


As nouns the difference between misunderstanding and misappreciation

is that misunderstanding is a mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception while misappreciation is a failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.

As a verb misunderstanding

is .

misunderstanding

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception.
  • A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • misappreciation

    English

    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. }}

    Synonyms

    *(failure to understand) misunderstanding, misapprehension; error, mistake *(failure to appreciate) scorn, disdain, despisement