conflations
/kənˈfleɪʃənz/
noun
- The act of combining two or more ideas, concepts, or things into one, often incorrectly or confusingly.
- The teacher warned against the conflation of correlation and causation in scientific studies.
- In the debate, there was a conflation of economic growth with personal wealth.
- The author's conflation of two different historical events led to many reader misunderstandings.