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Underestimation

noun
1.
An estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value.  Synonyms: underestimate, underrating, underreckoning.






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"Underestimation" Quotes from Famous Books



... through school and enter the university without any clear idea of whither they are tending. This uncertainty may be due to a belief that "something is sure to turn up," to the magnitude of their allowances and the ease of their circumstances, occasionally, perhaps, to excessive timidity or underestimation of their powers; but, from whatever cause it springs, such an attitude of mind is deplorable in itself, and fraught with grave moral dangers. It ought to be possible in the case of a boy of sixteen or seventeen to say with some approach to certainty, for ...
— Cambridge Essays on Education • Various



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