Misthoughts

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Errors or inaccuracies in thinking or reasoning; mistaken beliefs or misunderstandings; flawed judgments or conclusions drawn from faulty mental processes
2. Incorrect or faulty ideas formed in the mind; misconceptions or misinterpretations reflecting poor reasoning; thought processes leading to erroneous opinions or convictions
3. Faulty or erroneous cognitive assessments; mental errors leading to false beliefs; conclusions or perceptions based on flawed or misguided thinking

Etymology: "Misthoughts" is simply the plural of "misthought," and it is a plain formation: the prefix "mis-" meaning "wrongly" or "badly" attached to "thought." The prefix comes down from Old English, where "mis-" carried the sense of error or failure, and it is one of the productive English prefixes that has long been used to build words like "misjudge," "mistake," and "misunderstand." The base word "thought" has a much older pedigree. It descends from Old English "þōht," which goes back through the Proto-West Germanic and Proto-Germanic forms "þą̄ht" and "þanhtaz," all tied to the verb "to think." Its ancestry traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root that also gave rise to words for thinking and reasoning across the Germanic languages. Put together, "misthought" describes a faulty mental judgment, a thought that has gone wrong, and the plural "misthoughts" refers to several such errors.

Synonyms: misconceptions, misjudgments, errors, misunderstandings, fallacies

Antonyms: correct thoughts, insights, understandings, truths, realizations