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Mistakes vs Oversight - What's the difference?

mistakes | oversight |

As nouns the difference between mistakes and oversight

is that mistakes is plural of lang=en while oversight is an omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.

As a verb mistakes

is third-person singular of mistake.

mistakes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (mistake)

    • oversight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
  • Supervision or management.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}