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error vs oversight

oversight vs error

error and oversight both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
error Yes No No No
oversight Yes No No No
As nouns, oversight is a hyponym of error; that is, oversight is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than error:
  • error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
  • oversight: a mistake resulting from inattention
error (noun) oversight (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention a mistake resulting from inattention
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
inadvertent incorrectness an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
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 oversight

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