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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INAC'CURACY, n. [from inaccurate.] Want of accuracy or exactness; mistake; fault; defect; error; as an inaccuracy in writing, in a transcript, or in a calculation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being inaccurate and having errors [ant: accuracy, truth]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -cies) Date: circa 1755 1. the quality or state of being inaccurate 2. mistake, error

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inaccuracy In*ac"cu*ra*cy, n.; pl. Inaccuracies. 1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(inaccuracies) The inaccuracy of a statement or measurement is the fact that it is not accurate or correct. He was disturbed by the inaccuracy of the answers... ? accuracy N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Incorrectness, impropriety erroneousness, inexactness. 2. Mistake, error, blunder.

Moby Thesaurus

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, want