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fault
(Geology) A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture.
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  1. (Geology) A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture.
  2. Something that mars the appearance, character, structure, etc.; defect or failing
  3. A mistake; an error:
blunder
A foolish or stupid mistake
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  1. A foolish or stupid mistake
  2. A mistake typically caused by ignorance or carelessness.
inaccuracy
The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
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  1. The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
  2. An instance of being inaccurate; an error.
  3. An error or mistake
erratum
An error, especially one in a printed work.
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  1. An error, especially one in a printed work.
  2. An error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book.
error
(Law) A mistake in judgment or procedure of a court of record, usually prejudicial to one of the parties
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  1. (Law) A mistake in judgment or procedure of a court of record, usually prejudicial to one of the parties
  2. The difference between a computed or estimated result and the actual value, as in mathematics
  3. A mistake.
inaccuracy
The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
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  1. The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
  2. An instance of being inaccurate; an error.
  3. An error or mistake
lapse
The failure of a bequest or devise to take effect because of the death of the person who was to receive it
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  1. The failure of a bequest or devise to take effect because of the death of the person who was to receive it
  2. (Law) The termination or forfeiture of a right or privilege through disuse, through failure of some contingency, or through failure to meet stated obligations within a stated time
  3. A break in continuity; a pause:
miscue
(Billiards, Pool) A faulty shot in which the tip of the cue slips off the ball
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  1. (Billiards, Pool) A faulty shot in which the tip of the cue slips off the ball
  2. A miss of the object one intended to hit.
  3. A mistake; error
misstep
A step that is wrong, a false step.
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  1. A step that is wrong, a false step.
  2. A mistake in conduct; faux pas
  3. (Figuratively) An error or mistake.
mistake
In contract law, a factual misunderstanding that may lead to a failure of a meeting of the minds. In contract law, a factual misunderstanding that may lead to a failure of a meeting of the minds.
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  1. In contract law, a factual misunderstanding that may lead to a failure of a meeting of the minds. In contract law, a factual misunderstanding that may lead to a failure of a meeting of the minds.
  2. An error; a blunder.
  3. (Baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place
slip
(Ceramics) Clay thinned to the consistency of cream for use in decorating or casting, or as a cement or coating
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  1. (Ceramics) Clay thinned to the consistency of cream for use in decorating or casting, or as a cement or coating
  2. A small piece of paper, esp. one prepared for a specific use
  3. An error in conduct or thinking; a mistake.
slip-up
Alternative spelling of slip-up.
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  1. Alternative spelling of slip-up.
  2. (Idiomatic) A mistake or error; a minor misstep.
  3. An error or oversight
trip
A certain way of life or situation:
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  1. A certain way of life or situation:
  2. An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience:
  3. A mistake; blunder
Find another word for incorrectness. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for incorrectness, like: fault, blunder, inaccuracy, error, mistake, erratum, error, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue and misstep.

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  • The writings of Cassiodorus evince great erudition, ingenuity and labour, but are disfigured by incorrectness and an affected artificiality, and his Latin partakes much of the corruptions of the age.

  • The most remarkable of these was made outside the Church - a significant indication of the adverse effect of the conditions within; the Neo-platonist philosopher Porphyry 2 in the 3rd century A.D., untrammelled by church tradition and methods, anticipated one of the clearest and most important conclusions of modern criticism: he detected the incorrectness of the traditional ascription of Daniel to the Jewish captivity in Babylon and discerned that the real period of its composition was that of Antiochus Epiphanes, four centuries later.

  • In spite of the incorrectness of his diction, he was gifted with a genuine eloquence, and well knew how to carry the populace with him.

  • As to colour, he follows Goethe, and uses strong language against Newton's theory, for the barbarism of the conception that light is a compound, the incorrectness of his observations, &c. In chemistry, again, he objects to the way in which all the chemical elements are treated as on the same level.

  • A volume might be written on Orlando di Lasso's art of so crossing the voices as to render possible successions of chords which, on a keyed instrument where such crossing cannot be expressed, would be a horrible series of consecutive fifths; the beauty of the device consisting in the extreme simplicity of the chords, combined with the novelty due to the fact that these chords cannot be produced by any ordinary means without incorrectness.

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