misrecognize
/mɪsˈrɛkəɡnʌɪz/(also misrecognise)
verb [with object]
Mistake the identity of: sometimes the system misrecognized a command and did something completely unexpected...
- Privileging class struggle at best made a virtue of the necessary sectional fights for improvement within the system, or sorely misrecognised the commonality of British interests.
- The truth is that they are (more often) a kind of inessential by-product, spontaneously secreted, as it were, by the social machinery, but misrecognising themselves as the very fuel by which it runs.
- Because of my proclivities and my penchant for makeup, the straight community misrecognizes me as often, if not more so, as they do my butch counterparts.
Derivatives
misrecognition
- This and other cases of ideological misrecognition are, as I say, utterly commonplace and pass without comment.
- They're containers for a wide variety of resentments, conflicts, fears and misrecognitions.
- Without a written explanation, such documents are compromised by the potential misrecognition of the aesthetic motivations and impulses guiding the work.
- video dating
- video diary
- videodisc
- video display terminal
- videofit
- video frequency
- video game
- videogenic
- videogram
- videographer
- videographics
- videography
- video jock
- video jockey
- video link
- video mail
- video message
- video messaging
- video nasty
- video on demand
- videophile
- videophone
- video pill
- opaline
- opalinid