Misimagine

When the fact of their being ice, and not snow, is fully realized, still persons are apt to misimagine their appearance; for they are by no means smooth like our frozen lakes and rivers, but present a very unequal surface, undulating, furrowed, and broken.

The stupidity, parochialism, and greed in the international mismanagement of the whole nuclear challenge should not tempt us to misimagine the circumstances of the bomb's first “use.”

It is not easy to say what it is to misimagine another person. It is easier to give a useful description of some other kinds of misimagination.