folly vs error

folly and error both are nouns.

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

As nouns, error is a hypernym of folly; that is, error is a word with a broader meaning than folly:

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

Other hypernyms of folly include fault, mistake.

folly (noun)	error (noun)
foolish or senseless behavior	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
the trait of acting stupidly or rashly	inadvertent incorrectness
the quality of being rash and foolish	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 folly and error

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