haplography
/hapˈlɒɡrəfi
/noun [mass noun]
The inadvertent omission of a repeated letter or letters in writing (e.g. writing philogy for philology).Examples of the second type are treatments on dittography, haplography, harmonization, and itacisms....
- In contrast to this, it may in fact be a case of haplography where ‘Jesus’ has been omitted.
- There are mistakes of the visual type, such as haplography and dittography.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek haploos 'single' + -graphy.