failure vs error

error vs failure

failure and error both are nouns.

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

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

failure: an act that fails
error: (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

Other hyponyms of failure include failing, flunk, naught, loss, backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting, misplay, out, nonconformance, nonconformity, default, nonpayment, nonremittal.

failure (noun)	error (noun)
an act that fails	a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
an unexpected omission	(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose	inadvertent incorrectness
a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently	departure from what is ethically acceptable
lack of success	a misconception resulting from incorrect information
loss of ability to function normally	part of a statement that is not correct
inability to discharge all your debts as they come due	(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

Difference between failure and error

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