misunderstanding

English

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Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Translations

mistake

• Arabic: سُوؤ تَفَاهُم‎‎ m (sūʾ tafāhum)
• Armenian: թյուրիմացություն (hy) (tʿyurimacʿutʿyun)
• Catalan: malentès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 誤會 (zh), 误会 (zh) (wùhuì), 誤解 (zh), 误解 (zh) (wùjiě)

• Czech: nedorozumění (cs) n
• Danish: misforståelse (da) c
• Dutch: misverstand (nl) n
• Esperanto: miskompreno
• Estonian: segadus
• Finnish: väärinymmärrys, väärinkäsitys (fi), sekaannus (fi)
• French: malentendu (fr) m, quiproquo (fr) m
• German: Missverständnis (de) n
• Greek: παρεξήγηση (el) f (parexígisi)
• Hungarian: félreértés (hu)

• Italian: fraintendimento (it) m, qui pro quo (it), quiproquò
• Japanese: 誤解 (ja) (ごかい, gokai), 勘違い (かんちがい, kanchigai)
• Korean: 오해 (ko) (ohae) (誤解 (ko)), 착각 (ko) (chakgak) (錯覺 (ko))
• Latin: ambiguitas f
• Macedonian: недоразбирање n (nedorazbiranje)
• Maori: pōhēhētanga
• Polish: nieporozumienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: mal-entendido m, confusão (pt) f
• Russian: недоразуме́ние (ru) n (nedorazuménije), непра́вильное понима́ние n (neprávilʹnoje ponimánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-bhreithneachadh m, mì-thuigsinn f
• Sicilian: malantisa f
• Spanish: malentendido (es) m, qui pro quo m (very formal), confusión (es) f
• Swedish: missförstånd (sv) n
• Turkish: yanlış anlama
• Walloon: mescomprindance (wa) f, måletindou m

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

misunderstanding

1. present participle of misunderstand

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.zan.derˈstɛn.diŋɡ/

Noun

misunderstanding m (invariable)

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

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