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say it: mi-sa-pree-HEN-shuhn
misapprehension is a noun meaning "an understanding of something that is not correct". It carries one recorded sense.
an understanding of something that is not correct
“he wasn't going to admit his mistake”
“make no mistake about his intentions”
“there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for misapprehension come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.