misconception

CEFRC1

/ˌmɪs.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/

noun

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Believing nectarines to be a crossbreed of plums and peaches is a widespread misconception.
I can see how you might have that misconception.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

He had the misconception that the word "misconception" meant becoming pregnant with a girl.
There are several common misconceptions about the theory of relativity.
You're obviously under the misconception that I care about your problems.

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It is a common misconception that anal intercourse is an exclusively homosexual male practice. […] As elsewhere in Africa, little data exist on the role of anal sex in HIV acquisition in women in the general population […]
2010, S. S. Abdool Karim, Q. Abdool Karim, HIV/AIDS in South Africa, page 299
From November 28 to December 8, 1958, the CCP Central Committee held its sixth plenum in Wuhan, Hopei^([sic – meaning Hupei]), and at the end of the session it issued a revealing resolution that declared there had been some misconception about the system and that party committees throughout the countryside should make full use of the five months from December 1958 to April 1959 to tidy up the communes.
1968, Lucian W. Pye, “The Political Process in Action: The Communes”, in The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development, M.I.T. Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 203
We also found that because of the prevalence of cannabis in serious and fatal crashes, the changes in state laws regarding its legal use, and the public’s misconceptions about its impairing effects on driving, educating drivers on the impairing effects of cannabis use and the illegality of driving under its influence is critical to highway safety.
2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022

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From mis- + conception.