| NOUN | act | slip-up, slip, miscue, parapraxis | a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech / speech / speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. |
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| Meaning | A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech / speech / speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.. | |
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| Synonyms | slip, miscue, parapraxis | |
| Narrower | Freudian slip | A slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts / conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals |
| Broader | mistake, error, fault | A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
| Spanish | desahogo, error, lapsus, resbalón | |
| Catalan | error, espifiada, lapsus | |
| Verbs | slip up | make an error |
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