Misunderstanding is a masculine noun that means error, mistake, lapse and misunderstanding.
Example: "The employee's appointment was a mistake. This means that the indication was a mistake, a mistake, a mistake".
The word "mistake" is also an adjective, when used to reference the which is doubtful, confusing, ambiguous, that is, what lends itself to more than one interpretation.
Example: "He wrote a text full of mistakes".
Without the acute accent, the word “equivocal” is the present tense of the verb equivocate, which means to induce an error, a slip.
Example: "I am wrong when I say he is sincere".
In the context of Logic, misconception is a word that has more than one meaning. It is a verbal sophistry that consists in giving different meanings to a word within the same reasoning.
Example: "Four-two is six. Therefore, four are six and two are six".
Learn more about the meaning of sophism.
Synonyms of misunderstanding
- incorrectness;
- mistake;
- mistake;
- dubious;
- doubtful;
- ambiguous;
- misleading;
- error;
- misunderstanding;
- pun.