oversights
Unintentional missed items
Oversights are failures to notice or attend to something.
The word carries two distinct senses that context usually clarifies.
An oversight in the sense of a mistake is something accidentally missed or forgotten: The billing error was an oversight.
Oversight in the sense of supervision means watchful care or management: congressional oversight of intelligence agencies, regulatory oversight.
Serious mistakes from carelessness
- errorsUnintentional deviations from correctness
- lapsesTemporary failures or expirations
- omissionsThings left out
- slipsMinor mistakes made
missteps · miscalculations · inaccuracies · flaws · gaffes · misjudgments · faux pas · goofs
Failure to exercise care
- inattentionLack of focus
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- laxityLack of strictness
heedlessness · remissness · dereliction · inadvertence · unmindfulness · slackness · irresponsibility · nonobservance
Ongoing observation of something
- watchfulnessCareful, sustained attention
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- scrutinyClose, careful examination
inspection · review · auditing · governance · regulation · stewardship · administration · superintendence
blunders
Serious mistakes from carelessness
- errorsUnintentional deviations from correctness
- lapsesTemporary failures or expirations
- omissionsThings left out
slips · missteps · miscalculations · inaccuracies · flaws · gaffes · misjudgments · faux pas · goofs · bungles
negligence
Failure to exercise care
- inattentionLack of focus
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- disregardWillful lack of attention
laxity · heedlessness · remissness · dereliction · inadvertence · unmindfulness · slackness · irresponsibility · nonobservance · forgetfulness
monitoring
Ongoing observation of something
- watchfulnessCareful, sustained attention
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
scrutiny · inspection · review · auditing · governance · regulation · stewardship · administration · superintendence · guidance
oversightsattentions
Acts of romantic interest
scrutiny · vigilance · close attention · watchfulness · notice
- oversight committeePanel monitoring institutional conduct
- congressional oversightLegislature monitoring executive branch
- regulatory oversightOfficial monitoring of compliance
- corporate oversightMonitoring of company conduct
- police oversightScrutiny of law enforcement
- government oversightOfficial review of operations