false notion
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffalseandnotion
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false
adjective
uk/fɒls/us/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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notion
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnəʊ.ʃən/us/ˈnoʊ.ʃən/
a belief ...
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(Definition offalseandnotionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffalse notion
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This model is based on afalsenotion, namely, the notion that perception is a passive process.
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However, the article fails in leaving afalsenotionof what the issues were considered to be during the time period in question.
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For example, the themes in figure 1 may be very similar, and one may end up with afalsenotionof the overall structural dynamic of the work.
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How can we get rid of thisfalsenotionthat opera is only for a small minority of wealthy people?
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It is a shibboleth—if that is the right word; it is afalsenotion, in any case—to say that pay increases can be funded out of productivity or improved efficiency.
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Onefalsenotionis that the hard, tough, violent response to crime is more likely to cure a criminal or prevent a criminal returning to crime.
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He also told me that, in his opinion, it was afalsenotionthat such cruel and heartless behaviour was peculiar to poor and deprived families.
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That is afalsenotion.
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It is afalsenotion.
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That view reflects thefalsenotionthat democracy means that a government elected with a temporary majority has a mandate to impose on the country whatever legislation it chooses.
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Institutional bad faith renders those extraordinary conditions invisible and advances as a norm thefalsenotiona shared ordinary set of conditions.
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On the one hand, the respondents seemed to have false notions of other people's drinking habits.
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This is afalsenotion.
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Thus, in addition to false notions regarding appearance or health, he has transferred his sense of power from the base to the top of his structure.
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My article tried to explore where reconstruction of grammars might be possible, where it was undermined by demonstrably false notions about change, and where it seems not to be possible.
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None of us should entertain any false notions.
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I am advised that widespread advertising and publicity have dispelled some of the false notions that it costs £80 to buy a pair of spectacles.
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Various false notions persist, and this proposal is a good example of that, as other speakers have already pointed out.
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We have also to disabuse their minds of the false notions about why we give aid, and get rid of that word in the context of the canard of exploitation.
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Many false notions are believed by many people.
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