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The gap between what you said and what was true, politely called a detail.
means A statement or figure that falls short of being correct, whether by careless slip or convenient rounding.
from Built from the Latin accuratus, meaning 'prepared with care' — itself from cura, 'care.' Something accurate was literally 'cared-for,' tended into correctness. Slap the negative prefix in- on front and you get its opposite: a thing left uncared-for, where the care simply wasn't applied. The word entered English in the 1600s–1700s as 'accuracy' and its shadow 'inaccuracy' settled in alongside it — not a lie exactly, just carelessness wearing a lie's clothes.
- legal cousin
- courts distinguish it from lying by intent
- compounding
- small ones multiply fastest in translation and gossip
- map vs territory
- every model has some, including this one