 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
omission
noun
1: a mistake resulting from neglect [syn: {skip}]
2: something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for
omissions"
3: any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or
phrases [syn: {deletion}]
4: neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over
something
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Omission \O*mis"sion\, noun [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
203 Moby Thesaurus words for "omission":
Sisyphean labor, 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, 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
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