Definition of "misbelief" [mis•be•lief]

• A wrong or faulty belief. (noun)
• A heretical or unorthodox religious belief. (noun)

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• "As a quick diversion, let me mention a recent Behavior and Brain Sciences Journal issue dedicated to discussing "misbelief"."
• "But there's something just deeply disturbing about the misinformation and if there's such a word, the misbelief out there."
• "Our usual cognition of our ordinary bodies, then, is conceptual, despite our misbelief that we are actually “seeing” what our conceptual minds make appear."