misjudgment
noun
Roget 486:
credulity,
credulousness
etc.
adj.;
cullibility†,
gullibility;
gross credulity,
infatuation;
self delusion,
self deception;
superstition;
one's blind side;
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606;
hyperorthodoxy
etc.
984†;
misjudgment
etc.
481.
credulous person
etc.
(dupe)
547.
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Roget 481:
misjudgment,
obliquity of judgment;
miscalculation,
miscomputation,
misconception
etc.
(error)
495;
hasty conclusion.
[causes of misjudgment. 1]
prejudgment,
prejudication†,
prejudice;
foregone conclusion;
prenotion†,
prevention,
preconception,
predilection,
prepossession,
preapprehension†,
presumption,
assumption,
presentiment;
fixed idea,
preconceived idea;
id_ee fixe;
mentis gratissimus error [Lat.];
fool's paradise.
[causes of misjudgment. 2]
esprit de corps,
party spirit,
partisanship,
clannishness,
prestige.
[causes of misjudgment. 3]
bias,
bigotry,
warp,
twist;
hobby,
fad,
quirk,
crotchet,
partiality,
infatuation,
blind side,
mote in the eye.
[causes of misjudgment. 4]
one-sided views,
one-track mind,
partial views,
narrow views,
confined views,
superficial views,
one-sided ideas,
partial ideas,
narrow ideas,
confined ideas,
superficial ideas,
one-sided conceptions,
partial conceptions,
narrow conceptions,
confined conceptions,
superficial conceptions,
one-sided notions,
partial notions,
narrow notions,
confined notions,
superficial notions;
narrow mind;
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606;
odium theologicum [Lat.];
pedantry;
hypercriticism.
doctrinaire
etc.
(positive)
474.
[causes of misjudgment. 5]
overestimation
etc.
482;
underestimation
etc.
483.
[causes of misjudgment. 6]
ignorance
etc.
491.
erroneous assumptions,
erroneous data,
mistaken assumptions,
incorrect assumptions
(error)
495.
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Roget 477:
intuition,
instinct,
association,
hunch,
gut feeling;
presentiment,
premonition;
rule of thumb;
superstition;
astrology†;
faith
(supposition)
514.
sophistry,
paralogy†,
perversion,
casuistry,
jesuitry,
equivocation,
evasion;
chicane,
chicanery;
quiddet†,
quiddity;
mystification;
special pleading;
speciousness
etc.
adj.;
nonsense
etc.
497;
word sense,
tongue sense.
false reasoning,
vicious reasoning,
circular reasoning;
petitio principii [Lat.],
ignoratio elenchi [Lat.];
post hoc ergo propter hoc [Lat.];
non sequitur,
ignotum per ignotius [Lat.].
misjudgment
etc.
481;
false teaching
etc.
538.
sophism,
solecism,
paralogism†;
quibble,
quirk,
elenchus†,
elench†,
fallacy,
quodlibet,
subterfuge,
subtlety,
quillet†;
inconsistency,
antilogy†;
a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"
[Denman];
claptrap,
cant,
mere words;
lame and impotent conclusion"
[Othello].
meshes of sophistry,
cobwebs of sophistry;
flaw in an argument;
weak point,
bad case.
overrefinement†;
hairsplitting
etc.
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Moby thesaurus: aberrancy, aberration, abuse of terms, catachresis, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, eisegesis, errancy, erratum, erroneousness, error, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, faute, flaw, flawedness, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, human error, illusion, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misdoing, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, peccancy, perversion, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, squeezing, torturing, twisting, typo, typographical error, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrenching, wrong, wrongness ... show more.
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