error vs omission

omission vs error

error and omission both are nouns.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
omission: a mistake resulting from neglect

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, 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)	omission (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake resulting from neglect
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
inadvertent incorrectness	any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
departure from what is ethically acceptable	something that has been omitted
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 omission

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