misjudging distance
Estimating space poorly
Misjudging distance is incorrectly estimating how far away something is.
The phrase usually describes spatial errors—reaching for a glass and knocking it over, or rear-ending the car ahead.
It extends to temporal distances: I misjudged the distance to the deadline and ran out of time.
The error can go either direction—thinking something closer or farther than it actually is.
- depth perceptionGauging object distance visually
- depth perception testEvaluates three-dimensional vision ability
- parallaxPosition change from different vantages
- spatial awarenessSense of physical positioning
- miscalculationError in estimation
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