Omission
[ə(ʊ)'mɪʃ(ə)n] or [ə'mɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a mistake resulting from neglect.
(noun.) neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something.
(noun.) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases.
(noun.) something that has been omitted; 'she searched the table for omissions'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
(n.) That which is omitted or is left undone.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Failure, neglect, default.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Oversight, exclusion
ANT:Attention, insertion, notice
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The omission at that point was intentional. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is on her account that attention to Randalls is doubly due, and she must doubly feel the omission. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr Blandois, not at all put out by this omission on the part of the correspondents of the house of Clennam and Co. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Having forgotten to mention this, when she had last seen Sergeant Cuff, my mistress now desired me to supply the omission. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- These and other objections, such as the omission of explosives, firearms, paper, will readily occur to the reader. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Yes, I said, thus far we were right; but there was an omission which must now be supplied. Plato. The Republic.
- For sins of omission a lack of space affords a reasonable excuse, and for those of commission the great scope of the work is pleaded in extenuation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I took the liberty of reminding you of a little omission into which you had fallen--insensibly and naturally fallen. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I--who, though I had no love, had much friendship for him--was hurt by the marked omission: so much hurt that tears started to my eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But she did not put out her hand to him, and again he felt the omission, and set it down to pride. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Well, he said, it is not too late to supply the omission. Plato. The Republic.
- The slight omission was rectified. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omission which Dorothea afterwards thought of with surprise; but she blamed herself for it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The mistakes and omissions made in addressing these price cards became no less frequent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These omissions oppressed and depressed her considerably; still, on the whole, we got on very well. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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