Omission synonyms

leaving-out

The act of omitting

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passing-over

The act of omitting

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excluding

The act of omitting

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failing to mention

The act of omitting

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neglect

The act or an instance of neglecting something:

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exclusion

Of taxes, an item that is not required to be included in gross income; of insurance, the occurrences that will not receive coverage under the policy.

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missing

The act of omitting

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not naming

The act of omitting

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inclusion (antonym)

Inclusion is defined as the state of being included or being made a part of something.

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addition (antonym)

A thing or part added; increase; specif., a room or rooms added to a building

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skip

A container for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials.

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oversight

The definition of an oversight is something that is missed or neglected accidentally, or the process of supervising and monitoring a project.

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withholding

The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.

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lapse

A usually minor or temporary failure; a slip:

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cancellation

A remedy by which a court calls in, annuls, and retains possession of a void or rescinded written legal document because it may cause unnecessary litigation or make a person’s title to property unclear. For example, a court may call in, annul, and retain possession of a void deed to real estate that a party used to falsely claim title to someone else’s real property, in order to prevent any such claims in the future.

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repudiation

The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.

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want

The condition or quality of lacking something usual or necessary:

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imperfection

(Uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.

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mentioning (antonym)

An act of something being mentioned.

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inserting (antonym)

Something inserted or set in, such as lace in garments.

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carelessness (related)

Lack of care.

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elision

The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

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elide

To leave out or omit (something)

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exclude

Exclude is defined as to keep out or to refuse to admit.

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overlook

To ignore deliberately or indulgently; disregard:

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preclusion

(Countable) The act of precluding

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breach

(Law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

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inaccuracy (related)

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misrepresentation (related)

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misinterpretation (related)

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inconsistency (related)

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inadvertent (related)

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omissions (related)

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deletion (related)

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elimination

(Mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.

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cutting-out

The act of omitting

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slighting

The act of omitting

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aphaeresis

(UK, Canada) Alternative spelling of apheresis.

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aphesis

Loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word, a form of apheresis (Ex.: squire for esquire)

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apocope

The cutting off or dropping of the last sound or sounds of a word (Ex.: mos' for most)

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blank

A blank cartridge.

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chasm

A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty.

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default

(Comput.) A preset choice, setting, etc. for automatic use as by a program when no other is specified by a user

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delinquency

A failure, by act or omission, to perform a legal or contractual obligation.

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ellipsis

(Gram.) The omission of a word or words necessary for complete grammatical construction but understood in the context (Ex.: “if possible” for “if it is possible”)

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error

(Baseball) A misplay in fielding or throwing a ball which allows a runner to reach base or to advance to the next base: neither a wild pitch nor a passed ball is an error

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failure

The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends:

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haplology

The loss of one of two identical or similar adjacent syllables in a word, as in Latin nūtrīx, “nurse,” from earlier *nūtrītrīx.

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misfeasance

An otherwise legal act that is performed in an illegal fashion.

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negligence

(Law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.

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non-performance

Nonperformance of what ought to be done

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omittance

The act of omitting something

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paralipomena

Supplementary literary material.

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paralipsis

(Rhetoric, linguistics) Alternative spelling of paraleipsis.

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preterition

A rhetorical device in which the speaker emphasizes something by omitting it.

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pretermission

Preterition

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syncope

(Prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.

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forbear

To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up.

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ignore

(Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence

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omit

To fail to include; leave out

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remembrance (antonym)

An object that serves to bring to mind or keep in mind some person, event, etc.; souvenir, gift, keepsake, memento, etc.

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insertion (antonym)

A piece of lace or embroidery that can be set into a piece of cloth for ornamentation

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dereliction

Willful neglect, as of duty or principle.

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nonfeasance

(Law) The lack of liability associated with the failure to act.

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do (related)

(Archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do

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overlooking

The act of omitting

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disregard

The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.

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ignoring

The act by which something is ignored.

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not inserting

The act of omitting

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need

Necessity; obligation:

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lack (related)

The thing that is lacking or needed

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prohibition

Prohibition is a law or order forbidding something, or is the condition of forbidding something, or was a time in the U.S. during the 1920s and early 1930s when alcohol was illegal.

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