misascription
nounEtymology From mis- + ascription.
1
Usually The act or process of misascribing.
- Despite frequent misascription to Tycho, the work is in fact by Paul Wittich.
2
Usually The result thereof: an incorrect ascription; for example, the ascription of a quality to someone or something which does not possess it, or the ascription of a quotation to someone who did not originate it.
- The idea that Tycho wrote it was a misascription.
- Related terms
- misdescription