PARALOGISM Synonyms

• deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

• a person who is unusual

• (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• a change for the worse

• a shape resulting from distortion

• an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

• a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• inadvertent incorrectness

• a misconception resulting from incorrect information

• (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

• departure from what is ethically acceptable

• (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

• part of a statement that is not correct

• a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

• an imperfection in an object or machine

• defect or weakness in a person's character

• an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness

• add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective

• an erroneous mental representation

• something many people believe that is false

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

• the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts

• an incorrect conception

• putting the wrong interpretation on

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• an understanding of something that is not correct

• part of a statement that is not correct

• identify incorrectly

• to make a mistake or be incorrect

• putting the wrong interpretation on

• an understanding of something that is not correct