fault vs oversight

oversight vs fault

fault and oversight both are nouns.

fault is a verb but oversight is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fault	Yes	No	Yes	No
oversight	Yes	No	No	No

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

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
oversight: a mistake resulting from inattention

Other hyponyms of fault include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, 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.

fault (noun)	oversight (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake resulting from inattention
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)	management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection	an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
responsibility for a bad situation or event
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
an imperfection in an object or machine

fault (verb)	oversight (verb)
put or pin the blame on

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