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. v.. ... show more

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.    ... show more

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.    ... show more