omission
/ə(ʊ)ˈmɪʃ(ə)n
/noun
1Someone or something that has been left out or excluded: there are glaring omissions in the report...
- This was the glaring omission from not one but two local government bills announced on Wednesday.
- This has been a glaring omission from other farm management texts, but one that has become more important with growth in the global economy.
- A glaring omission from the speech was the 2003 budget, which is traditionally tabled along with the president's address.
Synonyms
deletion, cut, exclusion, gap, blank, lacuna, hiatus;
oversight
1.1 [mass noun] The action of excluding or leaving out someone or something: the omission of recent publications from his bibliography...
- The error of omission that excluded council from the lawsuit decision occurred under last year's leadership.
- It's as clear an example in recent memory of committing bias by omission.
- Still except for sundry exceptions of inadequate transference and omission, he renders them competently.
Synonyms
leaving out, exclusion, exception, non-inclusion, deletion, erasure, cut, excision, elimination, absence;
Linguistics aphesis, apheresis, apocope, apostrophe, asyndeton, elision, ellipsis, gapping, haplography, haplology, lipography, syncope
rare expunction
1.2A failure to fulfil a moral or legal obligation: to pay compensation for a wrongful act or omission...
- As a general rule, however, there is no liability in tortious negligence for an omission, unless the defendant is under some pre-existing duty.
- The words ‘any wrongful act or omission’ are in my view wide enough to encompass all wrongful acts or omissions.
- Could you give me some examples of sections which are express provisions related to negligent acts or omissions?
Synonyms
negligence, neglect, neglectfulness, dereliction, forgetfulness, oversight, disregard, non-fulfilment, default, lapse, failure;
Law nonjoinder
rare delinquency, misprision
Derivatives
omissive
- To eliminate that from the experience seems omissive to me.
- The omissive apostrophe signals a missing letter in contracted forms of words or phrases associated with spoken language and informal writing,
- We partition both the asymmetric and symmetric fault modes into disjoint omissive and transmissive submodes.
Origin
Late Middle English: from late Latin omissio(n-), from the verb omittere (see omit).