diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3df13a94f..a6b1dda24 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 
 #### :bug: Bug fix
 
+- Fix: bug where we incorrectly showed a warning notification about something going wrong with incremental type checking, when in fact the compiler was reporting multiple definitions of the same type or module name https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-vscode/pull/1086
+
 - Fix: incorrect highlighting of `as` inside labelled arguments like `toast` https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-vscode/pull/1085
 
 - Fix: bug where incremental analysis does not work when the project folder contains a dot. https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-vscode/pull/1080
diff --git a/server/src/incrementalCompilation.ts b/server/src/incrementalCompilation.ts
index 4bb824556..0ca5e28d5 100644
--- a/server/src/incrementalCompilation.ts
+++ b/server/src/incrementalCompilation.ts
@@ -677,8 +677,13 @@ async function compileContents(
             .filter((d) => {
               if (
                 !d.message.startsWith("Uninterpreted extension 'rescript.") &&
-                !d.message.includes(
-                  `/${INCREMENTAL_FOLDER_NAME}/${entry.file.sourceFileName}`
+                (
+                  !d.message.includes(
+                    `/${INCREMENTAL_FOLDER_NAME}/${entry.file.sourceFileName}`
+                  ) ||
+                  // The `Multiple definition of the <kind> name <name>` type error's
+                  // message includes the filepath with LOC of the duplicate definition
+                  d.message.includes("Multiple definition of the")
                 )
               ) {
                 hasIgnoredErrorMessages = true;