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incorrectness vs error

error vs incorrectness

incorrectness and error both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
incorrectness Yes No No No
error Yes No No No
As nouns, error is a hyponym of incorrectness; that is, error is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than incorrectness:
  • incorrectness: the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
  • error: inadvertent incorrectness
Other hyponyms of incorrectness include erroneousness.
incorrectness (noun) error (noun)
the quality of not conforming to fact or truth a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
lack of conformity to social expectations (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
Difference between incorrectness and error

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