error vs stupidity

stupidity vs error

error and stupidity both are nouns.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
stupidity: a stupid mistake

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, 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, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	stupidity (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a stupid mistake
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
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 stupidity

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