Omission synonyms and antonyms

ō-mĭsh'ən

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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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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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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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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A remedy by which a court calls in, annuls, and retains possession of a void or rescinded written legal document because it may cause unnecessary litigation or make a person’s title to property unclear.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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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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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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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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Omission Sentence Examples

  • His regard for the young nobleman' last named dictated the omission in the later editions of his Moral Sentiments of the name of the celebrated ancestor of the duke, whom he had associated with Mandeville as author of one of the "licentious systems" reviewed in the seventh part of that work.

  • This omission is sometimes believed to be an error.

  • The principal difference from the manner described of making black tea lies in the omission of the withering and fermenting, and the substitution for those of a steaming or panning process.

  • It can still be pretty clearly shown in detail that these four codices deviated from one another in points of orthography, in the insertion or omission of a wa (" and ") and such-like minutiae; but these variations nowhere affect the sense.

  • To correct that omission we provide the details here - see below.

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