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misbelief
noun as in dissent
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noun as in dissidence
noun as in error
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noun as in heresy
noun as in ignis fatuus
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- apparition
- bubble
- chimera
- confusion
- daydream
- deception
- deja vu
- delusion
- error
- fallacy
- false impression
- fancy
- fantasy
- figment of imagination
- fool's paradise
- ghost
- hallucination
- head trip
- hocus-pocus
- idolism
- ignus fatuus
- image
- invention
- make believe
- mirage
- misapprehension
- misconception
- misimpression
- mockery
- myth
- optical illusion
- paramnesia
- phantasm
- phantasma
- pipe dream
- rainbow
- seeming
- semblance
- trip
- virtual reality
- will-o'-the-wisp
noun as in illusion
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Example Sentences
“There’s a misbelief that in order to teach early childhood math, you don’t really need to know math well,” Lauren Solarski, a consultant and coach with the Early Math Collaborative at Erikson, told the group of educators.
“There’s a misbelief that in order to teach early childhood math, you don’t really need to know math well,” Lauren Solarski, a consultant and coach with the Early Math Collaborative at Erikson, told the group of educators.
This misbelief likely contributed to the next two results from that survey: while majorities of liberals, moderates, and conservatives favored lesser sanctions for those convicted of non-violent crimes who posed little risk of reoffending, majorities of all three groups also opposed lesser sanctions for those convicted of violence who likewise pose little risk of reoffending.
A podcast designed to knock down misinformation — a common misbelief is that the vaccines affect fertility — plays around the base.
It’s a common misbelief that terroir is a concept singular to the French, and that no corresponding word exists in other cultures.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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