omission vs error

error vs omission

omission and error both are nouns.

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

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

omission: a mistake resulting from neglect
error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

Other hypernyms of omission include fault, mistake.

omission (noun)	error (noun)
a mistake resulting from neglect	a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something	(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases	inadvertent incorrectness
something that has been omitted	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 omission and error

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