error vs foolishness

foolishness vs error

error and foolishness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
error	Yes	No	No	No
foolishness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, foolishness is a hyponym of error; that is, foolishness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than error:

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
foolishness: a stupid mistake

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	foolishness (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a stupid mistake
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
inadvertent incorrectness	the quality of being rash and foolish
departure from what is ethically acceptable
a misconception resulting from incorrect information
part of a statement that is not correct
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

Difference between error and foolishness

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