omission.
The act of omitting.
Meaning & usage
The act of omitting.
The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.
An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.
Something not done or neglected.
The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.