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misperceive

American  
[mis-per-seev] / ˌmɪs pərˈsiv /

verb (used with object)

misperceived, misperceiving
  1. to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.


Other Word Forms

  • misperception noun

Etymology

Origin of misperceive

First recorded in 1920–25; mis- 1 + perceive

Example Sentences

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I feel aligned with him in terms of experiencing the pressures from the outside that misperceive his interior life and what he considers to be his own authentic self.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Synthetic data, they wrote, ends up “polluting the training set of the next generation of models; being trained on polluted data, they then misperceive reality.”

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023

From prior research, we felt confident that people probably would misperceive climate policy support.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2022

Most investors misperceive the risks associated with investing in minority communities.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021

Federal investigators recently said that Zobayan appeared to misperceive the angles at which he was flying after becoming disoriented in the fog.

From Fox News • Jun. 23, 2020