Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1959, from mis- (1) + communication. Related: Miscommunicate; miscommunicated.
Wiktionary
n. An interaction between two parties in which information was not communicated as desired.
Usage examples of "miscommunication".
Wishing to make certain that there was no miscommunication, the herdsman repeated the query and for a second time made scrupulous note of the response.
It was a case of garbled communications, miscommunication, and bureaucratic arrogance right from the start.
When Robert Graysmith researched this miscommunication, he found their report had been filed away as confidential, and the official statement from the San Francisco police was that none of their officers had ever seen the suspect.
Sometimes it was accidental, sometimes the result of miscommunication, often the result of sheer malice.
Denio, Nevada, where I was arrested for vagrancy and through a series of miscommunications and bad luck, ended up serving thirty days of county jail time.
The man had come in under a flag of truce, and had insisted that the battle had all been a terrible mistake, a result of a miscommunication between Jacintha and Dharyan-Dharielle.
They'd come full circle, back to a scruffy group of nitwits and a comedy of misidentification and miscommunication.