Synonyms of the word

oversight

• n. An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
• n. Supervision or management.
• v. (transitive, nonstandard) To oversee; to supervise.

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

error

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
• n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
• n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
• n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
• n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
• n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
• v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
• v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• v. (nonstandard) To err.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

inadvertence

• n. The state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
• n. An effect or result of inattention; an oversight or mistake from negligence.

lapse

• n. A temporary failure; a slip.
• n. A decline or fall in standards.
• n. A pause in continuity.
• n. An interval of time between events.
• n. A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
• n. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer…
• n. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator,…
• n. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
• v. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
• v. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
• v. (intransitive) To become void.
• v. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence,…

management

• n. (uncountable, management) Administration; the process or practice of managing.
• n. (management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
• n. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

omission

• n. The act of omitting.
• n. The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
• n. Something deleted or left out.
• n. Something not done or neglected.
• n. (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe (') to replace the missing letters,…

superintendence

• n. The act of superintending; supervision.

supervising

• v. present participle of supervise.

supervision

• n. The act or instance of supervising.
• n. Responsible oversight.
• n. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) A tutorial session for an individual student or a small group.