error vs parapraxis

parapraxis vs error

error and parapraxis both are nouns.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
parapraxis: a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, 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)	parapraxis (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
(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

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