error vs incursion

incursion vs error

error and incursion both are nouns.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
incursion: the mistake of incurring liability or blame

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, 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, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	incursion (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers)
inadvertent incorrectness	the mistake of incurring liability or blame
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 incursion

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