misrepresentation vs representation

misrepresentation

noun
  • Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation. 

  • Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations. 

  • In map-making, faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles. 

representation

noun
  • The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government. 

  • The act of representing. 

  • An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space. 

  • A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others 

  • The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court. 

  • A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality. 

  • That which represents something else. 

  • A theatrical performance. 

  • An act of representing, i.e. presenting again. 

How often have the words misrepresentation and representation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )