The quality of being inexact.
synonym: inexactitude.
Roget 495:
error,
fallacy;
misconception,
misapprehension,
misstanding†,
misunderstanding;
inexactness
etc.
adj.;
laxity;
misconstruction
etc.
(misinterpretation)
523;
miscomputation
etc.
(misjudgment)
481;
non sequitur
etc.
477;
mis-statement,
mis-report;
mumpsimus†.
mistake;
miss,
fault,
blunder,
quiproquo,
cross purposes,
oversight,
misprint,
erratum,
corrigendum,
slip,
blot,
flaw,
loose thread;
trip,
stumble
etc.
(failure)
732;
botchery
etc.
(want of skill)
699†;
slip of the tongue,
slip of the lip,
Freudian slip;
slip of the pen;
lapsus linguae [Lat.],
clerical error;
bull
etc.
(absurdity)
497;
haplography†.
illusion,
delusion;
snare;
false impression,
false idea;
bubble;
self-decit,
self-deception;
mists of error.
heresy
etc.
(heterodoxy)
984;
hallucination
etc.
(insanity)
503;
false light
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
dream
etc.
(fancy)
515;
fable
etc.
(untruth)
546;
bias
etc.
(misjudgment)
481;
misleading
etc.
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Roget 571:
obscurity
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519;
involution;
hard words;
ambiguity
etc.
520;
unintelligibleness;
vagueness
etc.
475,
inexactness
etc.
495;
what d'ye call 'em
etc.
(neologism)
563†;
darkness of meaning.
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Roget 460:
neglect;
carelessness
etc.
adj.;
trifling
etc.
v.;
negligence;
omission,
oversight,
laches [Law],
default;
supineness
etc.
(inactivity)
683;
inattention
etc.
458;
nonchalance
etc.
(insensibility)
823;
imprudence,
recklessness
etc.
863;
slovenliness
etc.
(disorder)
59,
(dirt)
653;
improvidence
etc.
674;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
inexactness
etc.
(error)
495.
paralipsis,
paralepsis,
paraleipsis
(in rhetoric).
trifler,
waiter on Providence;
Micawber.
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