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misdirection collapse: incorrect directions or instructions; an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge

agnosticism collapse: the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge; a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; "agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence"

inexperience collapse: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"

unfamiliarity collapse: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

opacity collapse: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light; incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning; the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation

sophism collapse: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

innocence collapse: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence"

tabula rasa collapse: a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)

vagueness collapse: indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner"; unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey"

mystification collapse: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered; something designed to mystify or bewilder

sophistication collapse: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"; the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment; being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

speciousness collapse: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"

vicious circle collapse: an argument that assumes that which is to be proved; one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

insincerity collapse: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

greenness collapse: the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation; the state of not being ripe

casuistry collapse: moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas; argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading

equivocation collapse: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

darkness collapse: a swarthy complexion; having a dark or somber color; an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

obscurity collapse: the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination; an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"

mist collapse: a thin fog with condensation near the ground; become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over"; spray finely or cover with mist

mumbo jumbo collapse: language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand

rationalization collapse: the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency; (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation; the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening

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