Misjudgement

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of misjudgment. alt-of, alternative

    "[…] patients who have sustained peripheral injuries […] may make individual misjudgements, or a series of these, with regard to the size of individual objects, especially meaningless, geometrical objects like steps, because of an uncertainty or deficiency in their own inner scales […]"

Synonyms

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aberrancyaberrationabuse of termscatachresisclerical errorcontorting

Example

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"He realizes that public officials are human, and that as human beings they are capable of misjudgement."

Etymology

From mis- + judgement.

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