Both Uses of
erroneous
in
The Magic Mountain
- It was based on a misperception, a failure of imagination, because the healthy person was attributing his own mode of experience to the sick person, making of him, so to speak, a healthy person who had to bear the torments of sickness—a totally erroneous idea.†
Chpt 6.6 *
- The erroneous belief that possessed him had become an itch of mistrust, a restless paranoia that drove him to pluck out any uncleanness that lay hidden or disguised in his vicinity, to hold it up to public disgrace.†
Chpt 7.9
Definition:
containing or characterized by error