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error vs nonachievement

nonachievement vs error

error and nonachievement both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
error Yes No No No
nonachievement Yes No No No
As nouns, nonachievement is a hypernym of error; that is, nonachievement is a word with a broader meaning than error:
  • error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
  • nonachievement: an act that does not achieve its intended goal
Other hypernyms of error include nonaccomplishment.
error (noun) nonachievement (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention an act that does not achieve its intended goal
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
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 nonachievement

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