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error vs incorrectness

incorrectness vs error

error and incorrectness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
error Yes No No No
incorrectness Yes No No No
As nouns, incorrectness is a hypernym of error; that is, incorrectness is a word with a broader meaning than error:
  • error: inadvertent incorrectness
  • incorrectness: the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
Other hypernyms of error include wrongness.
error (noun) incorrectness (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed lack of conformity to social expectations
inadvertent incorrectness
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 incorrectness

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