misjudgement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ judgement

Noun[edit]

misjudgement (plural misjudgements)

  1. Alternative form of misjudgment
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      [] 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 []