missight

noun

missight

noun

Etymology From mis- + sight.

1

Rare Sight proved to be wrong; an instance of seeing something that turned out to be something else or nothing at all.

  • Perhaps this — whatever it was — was just a missight, so to speak, because her eyes weren't working properly.2009, Pamela Freeman, Full Circle:

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