misimplication
misimplication noun: an erroneous implication.
Noun
misimplication (countable and uncountable, plural misimplications)
- An erroneous implication.
- There is also the flagrant misimplication that business concerns never limit output and restrict supply by shutting down plants, suppressing progressive inventions, and by other methods, when it will enhance profits to do so.1923, Albert Benedict Wolfe, Conservatism, Radicalism, and Scientific Method, page 113
- The misimplication is to assume that the ordinary logic of treatment applicable to the neurotic child can be applied to the borderline or psychotic chile, as well.1976, Rudolf Ekstein, In Search of Love and Competence, page 157
Forms of misimplication
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Origin of misimplication
From mis- + implication.
Questions about misimplication
- What does misimplication mean?
- Misimplication means an erroneous implication.
- What part of speech is misimplication?
- Misimplication is a noun.
- What is the plural of misimplication?
- The plural of misimplication is misimplications.
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