misrepresentation vs distortion

distortion vs misrepresentation

misrepresentation and distortion both are nouns.

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

As nouns, distortion is a hyponym of misrepresentation; that is, distortion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than misrepresentation:

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

Other hyponyms of misrepresentation include overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting, equivocation, tergiversation, fabrication, lying, prevarication, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation.

misrepresentation (noun)	distortion (noun)
a willful perversion of facts	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
a misleading falsehood	the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
	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 misrepresentation and distortion

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