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category error

category error noun: synonym of category mistake.

Noun

category error (plural category errors)

  1. Synonym of category mistake.
    • So, is lambasting the Manifesto for inaccuracy a category error, akin, say, to fact-checking a slogan?2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC

Synonyms of category error

Forms of category error

pluralcategory errors

Questions about category error

What does category error mean?
Category error means synonym of category mistake.
What part of speech is category error?
Category error is a noun.
What is the plural of category error?
The plural of category error is category errors.

Words near category error in the dictionary

  1. categorizer
  2. categorizers
  3. categorizes
  4. categorizing
  5. category
  6. category error
  7. category errors
  8. category five
  9. category fraud
  10. category killer
  11. category killers

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