0 a failure to understand something, or an understanding or belief about something that is not correct:
[ + that ] Most industrialists labour under a misapprehension (= wrongly believe) that unrestrained economic growth can be achieved without damaging the environment.
1 a failure to understand something, or an understanding or belief about something that is not correct:
Opinions varied, with largely optimistic replies from the students, and maybe some misapprehensions.
Any remaining errors and misapprehensions are the responsibility of the author.
These claims seem to me to betray misapprehensions about language in general, and lingua francas in particular.
A common misapprehension was that a will was sacrosanct.
Results of such unsatisfactory encounters include deepening mistrust, suspicion, and misapprehension directed toward professionals.
Along the way we demonstrate that the behavioural prescriptions of both realism and liberalism rest on empirical misapprehension and faulty logic.
Phonetically natural misapprehensions are more likely to occur than unnatural ones, and this is the way in which natural patterns will tend to creep into the linguistic structure.
Genre studies that focus narrowly on describing textual forms and typologies have given rise to some misapprehensions.