distortion vs misrepresentation

misrepresentation vs distortion

distortion and misrepresentation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
distortion	Yes	No	No	No
misrepresentation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, misrepresentation is a hypernym of distortion; that is, misrepresentation is a word with a broader meaning than distortion:

distortion: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
misrepresentation: a willful perversion of facts

Other hypernyms of distortion include falsification.

distortion (noun)	misrepresentation (noun)
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean	a willful perversion of facts
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts	a misleading falsehood
a change for the worse
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
a shape resulting from distortion

Difference between distortion and misrepresentation

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