Usually means: Incorrect belief accepted as true.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. misbelief: Merriam-Webster
  2. misbelief: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misbelief: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. misbelief: Collins English Dictionary
  5. misbelief: Wordnik
  6. misbelief: Wiktionary
  7. misbelief: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. misbelief: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Misbelief, misbelief: Dictionary.com
  10. Misbelief: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. misbelief: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Misbelief: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. misbelief: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. misbelief: FreeDictionary.org
  15. misbelief: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. misbelief: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (misbelief)

▸ noun:  an erroneous belief
▸ noun:  (religion) a heresy; an unorthodox belief
▸ noun:  (obsolete) doubt; an erroneous lack of belief.

Similar:
misconception, misassumption, misperception, misfaith, illusion, misbelieving, misfact, miscredulity, misclaim, misestimate, more...

Opposite:
belief, faith, conviction

Types:
superstition, delusion, illusion, fable, more...

Adjectives:
common, popular, such, own, gross, idolatrous, vulgar, strange, arian, turkish, theological

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Similar:
misconception, misassumption, misperception, misfaith, illusion, misbelieving, misfact, miscredulity, misclaim, misestimate, more...

Opposite:
belief, faith, conviction

Types:
superstition, delusion, illusion, fable, more...

Adjectives:
common, popular, such, own, gross, idolatrous, vulgar, strange, arian, turkish, theological



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