OMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does omission mean? 

• OMISSION (noun)
  The noun OMISSION has 4 senses:

1. a mistake resulting from neglect

2. something that has been omitted

3. any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

4. neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something

  Familiarity information: OMISSION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mistake resulting from neglect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

omission; skip

Hypernyms ("omission" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "omission"):

failure (an unexpected omission)

Derivation:

omit (leave undone or leave out)

omit (prevent from being included or considered or accepted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something that has been omitted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

she searched the table for omissions

Hypernyms ("omission" is a kind of...):

disuse; neglect (the state of something that has been unused and neglected)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

deletion; omission

Hypernyms ("omission" is a kind of...):

linguistic process (a process involved in human language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "omission"):

aphaeresis; apheresis ((linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in 'coon' for 'raccoon' or 'till' for 'until')

aphesis (the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in 'squire' for 'esquire')

elision (omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next))

eclipsis; ellipsis (omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("omission" is a kind of...):

disregard; neglect (lack of attention and due care)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "omission"):

inadvertence; oversight (an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something)

pretermission (letting pass without notice)

elision; exception; exclusion (a deliberate act of omission)

Derivation:

omit (leave undone or leave out)

 Context examples 

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Reading difficulties can include distortions, omissions or substitutions of characters.

(Dyslexia, NCI Thesaurus)

It is on her account that attention to Randalls is doubly due, and she must doubly feel the omission.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sir Walter had once been in company with the late viscount, but had never seen any of the rest of the family; and the difficulties of the case arose from there having been a suspension of all intercourse by letters of ceremony, ever since the death of that said late viscount, when, in consequence of a dangerous illness of Sir Walter's at the same time, there had been an unlucky omission at Kellynch.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I am perfectly acquainted with the play, I assure you; and with a very few omissions, and so forth, which will be made, of course, I can see nothing objectionable in it; and I am not the only young woman you find who thinks it very fit for private representation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The deliberate act of omission.

(Exclusion, NCI Thesaurus)

Thus they denote the folly of a servant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of Yahoo.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Though the 6th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual indicates that unspecified TNM staging descriptors may be considered synonymous with the corresponding fully specified clinical category, such omission may lead to ambiguity in meaning, and in practice unqualified descriptors are frequently used with other intended meanings.

(Generic TNM Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The bare possibility of it acted as a farther irritation on her spirits; and her being left in solitary grandeur, even supposing the omission to be intended as a compliment, was but poor comfort.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)