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Omission

Omission Meaning & Definition
Omission Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Omission?

[n] a mistake resulting from neglect
[n] neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
[n] any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases
[n] something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Omission: deletion | skip

Related Terms | Find terms related to Omission: abbreviation | abridgment | absence | arrearage | atrocity | bad policy | balk | ban | bar | barring | beggary | bevue | blank | blockade | blue-penciling | bowdlerization | boycott | breach | break | cancellation | censoring | censorship | chasm | circumscription | crime | crime against humanity | culpa | culpable negligence | deadly sin | debarment | debarring | defalcation | default | defect | defectiveness | deficiency | deficit | deletion | delinquency | demarcation | deprivation | dereliction | destitution | disconformity | discontinuity | disregard | dropping | drought | editing | elimination | embargo | endless task | enormity | erasure | error | evil | exception | excision | excluding | exclusion | expurgation | failure | false move | false step | famine | fault | felony | gap | genocide | guilty act | heavy sin | hiatus | imperfection | impolicy | impoverishment | impropriety | inadmissibility | inadvertence | inadvertency | inattention | incompleteness | indiscretion | inexecution | inexpedience | inexpediency | inexpiable sin | iniquity | injunction | injury | injustice | inobservance | interval | laches | lack | lacuna | laissez-faire | lapse | lapsus calami | lapsus linguae | laxity | laxness | leaving out | lockout | loose ends | loose thread | looseness | maladministration | malefaction | malfeasance | malpractice | malum | minor wrong | misadministration | misconduct | miscue | misdeed | misdemeanor | misdirection | misfeasance | misgovernment | misguidance | mishandling | mismanagement | misrule | missing link | misstep | mortal sin | narrowing | need | neglect | neglectfulness | negligence | nonaccomplishment | nonachievement | nonadherence | nonadmission | noncompliance | nonconformance | nonconformity | nonconsummation | nondischarging | nonexecution | nonfeasance | nonfulfillment | noninterference | nonobservance | nonperformance | nonrestriction | offense | omitting | outage | outrage | overlook | overlooking | oversight | peccadillo | peccancy | permissiveness | poor stewardship | preclusion | preterition | procrastination | prohibition | rejection | relegation | remissness | repudiation | restriction | rough edges | shortage | shortcoming | shortfall | sin | sin of commission | sin of omission | sinful act | Sisyphean labor | skip | skipping | slackness | slight | slip | slipup | starvation | striking | stumble | taboo | tort | transgression | trespass | trip | ullage | unfulfillment | unobservance | unrigorousness | unutterable sin | venial sin | want | wantage | work of Penelope | wrong | wrong step | wrongdoing

See Also | aphaeresis | apheresis | aphesis | disregard | disuse | eclipsis | elision | elision | ellipsis | error | exception | exclusion | failure | fault | inadvertence | linguistic process | mistake | neglect | neglect | oversight | pretermission

Omission In Webster's Dictionary

\O*mis"sion\, n. [L. omissio: cf. F. omission. See {Omit}.] 1. The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty. The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission. --Addison. 2. That which is omitted or is left undone.

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