Difference between Distraction and Misdirection

What is the difference between Distraction and Misdirection?

Distraction as a noun is something that distracts. while Misdirection as a noun is an act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.

Distraction

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something that distracts. The process of being distracted.

Example sentence: I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Misdirection

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.(Legal - British English) An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court

We hope you now know whether to use Distraction or Misdirection in your sentence.

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