omission (redirected from omissions)

o·mis·sion  (-mshn)

n.

1. The act or an instance of omitting.

2. The state of having been omitted.

3. Something omitted or neglected.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin omissi, omissin-, from Latin omissus, past participle of omittere, to disregard; see omit.]

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omission [əʊˈmɪʃən]

n

1. something that has been omitted or neglected

2. the act of omitting or the state of having been omitted

[from Latin omissiō, from omittere to omit]

omissive  adj

omissiveness  n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	omission - a mistake resulting from neglect     skip failure - an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes" error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
	2.	omission - something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions" disuse, neglect - the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
	3.	omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases deletion 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 linguistic process - a process involved in human language
	4.	omission - neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something disregard, neglect - lack of attention and due care inadvertence, oversight - an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something pretermission - letting pass without notice exception, elision, exclusion - a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"

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omission

noun

1. exclusion, removal, leaving out, elimination, deletion, excision, noninclusion her omission from the guest list
exclusion addition, inclusion, insertion, incorporation

2. gap, space, blank, exclusion, lacuna There is one noticeable omission in your article.

3. failure, neglect, default, negligence, oversight, carelessness, dereliction, forgetfulness, slackness, laxity, laxness, slovenliness, neglectfulness, remissness an injury occasioned by any omission of the defendant

Translations

omission [əʊˈmɪʃən] N (= act of omitting) → omisión f; (= mistake) → descuido m
it was an omission on my part → fue un descuido mío

omission [əʊˈmɪʃ^ən] n → omission f

omission

n (= omitting: of word, detail etc) → Auslassen nt; (= word, thing etc left out) → Auslassung f; (= failure to do sth) → Unterlassung f; with the omission of … → unter Auslassung (+gen) → …; sin of omission (Eccl, fig) → Unterlassungssünde f

omission [əʊˈmɪʃ/ən] n → omissione f

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omission [əʊˈmɪʃ/ən] n → omissione f