misunderstanding

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misunderstanding (plural misunderstandings)

1. A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.
   • 1965, Haile Selassie, African Liberation Day speech

     Because of misunderstandings among certain member states of the Organization of African Unity's voices have been occasionally raised recently against the convocation of the Assembly in Accra. Nonetheless, the regular Assembly of the Heads of State and Government was, in the first place, designed to find peaceful solutions, through deliberations and frank exchange of views to such misunderstandings among member-states.

2. A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.

See the etymology of the main entry.

misunderstanding

1. present participle of misunderstand

• misunderstanding in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• misunderstanding in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Borrowed from English.

• IPA^(key): /mi.zan.derˈstɛn.diŋɡ/

misunderstanding m (invariable)

1. (informal, neologism) misunderstanding, misconception, incomprehension

   Synonyms: equivoco, fraintendimento, incomprensione, malinteso, qui pro quo