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inaccuracy
CIDE DICTIONARY
inaccuracy, n.
- The quality of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy or exactness. [1913 Webster]
- That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
inaccuracy
abstractionism, adulteration, allowance, amorphousness, approximation, blobbiness, blurriness, broadness, coloring, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deformation, deviation, disorder, distortion, erroneousness, exaggeration, expressionism, fallibility, false coloring, falsification, faultiness, fogginess, fuzziness, garbling, generality, haziness, hyperbole, ill-definedness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, imprecision, impurity, inaccurateness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inchoateness, incoherence, incompleteness, incorrectness, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indistinctness, inexactitude, inexactness, injustice, lack, laxity, litotes, looseness, mediocrity, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistiness, negligence, nonrealism, obscuration, obscurity, overdrawing, overstatement, patchiness, perversion, predictable error, probable error, shapelessness, shortage, shortcoming, sketchiness, slanting, standard deviation, sweepingness, tolerance, twisting, unclearness, unconscientiousness, uncorrectness, uncriticalness, understatement, undevelopment, unevenness, unexactingness, unfactualness, unfinicalness, unfussiness, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unperfectedness, unpreciseness, unpunctiliousness, unpunctuality, unrigorousness, unscrupulousness, unsoundness, vagueness, wantFor further exploring for "inaccuracy" in Webster Dictionary Online