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miscitation

miscitation noun: incorrect citation.

Noun

miscitation (countable and uncountable, plural miscitations)

  1. incorrect citation
    • There are unfortunately dozens of similar miscitations in the medical literature on guns and violence. They include authors
      1. citing studies for support when the studies in fact contained no relevant information[…]2017, Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control

Forms of miscitation

pluralmiscitations

Origin of miscitation

From mis- + citation.

Questions about miscitation

What does miscitation mean?
Miscitation means incorrect citation.
What part of speech is miscitation?
Miscitation is a noun.
What is the plural of miscitation?
The plural of miscitation is miscitations.

Words near miscitation in the dictionary

  1. miscirculate
  2. miscirculated
  3. miscirculates
  4. miscirculating
  5. miscirculation
  6. miscitation
  7. miscitations
  8. miscite
  9. miscited
  10. miscites
  11. misciting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miscitation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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