OMISSION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for OMISSION?

Need another word that means the same as “omission”? Find 24 synonyms and 30 related words for “omission” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Omission” are: deletion, skip, cut, exclusion, gap, blank, lacuna, hiatus, leaving out, exception, erasure, excision, elimination, absence, negligence, neglect, neglectfulness, dereliction, forgetfulness, oversight, disregard, default, lapse, failure

Omission as a Noun

Definitions of "Omission" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “omission” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A mistake resulting from neglect.
• Neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something.
• A failure to fulfil a moral or legal obligation.
• The action of excluding or leaving out someone or something.
• Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases.
• A person or thing that has been left out or excluded.
• Something that has been omitted.

Synonyms of "Omission" as a noun (24 Words)

absence	The state of being absent. The letter had arrived during his absence.
blank	A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing. My mind was a total blank.
cut	The way or style in which something especially a garment or someone s hair is cut. His cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels.
default	Act of failing to meet a financial obligation. The default is fifty lines.
deletion	Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases. An editor s deletions frequently upset young authors.
dereliction	The shameful failure to fulfil one’s obligations. The prosecution team were guilty of dereliction of duty for failing to disclose evidence.
disregard	Willful lack of care and attention. Blatant disregard for the law.
elimination	The murder of a competitor. A global commitment to the elimination of nuclear weapons.
erasure	Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing. The erasure of prior history.
exception	An instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization. All her children were brilliant the only exception was her last child.
excision	Surgical removal of a body part or tissue. The excision of the carcinoma.
exclusion	A deliberate act of omission. Exclusions can be added to your policy.
failure	The action or state of not functioning. Their failure to comply with the basic rules.
forgetfulness	Tendency to forget. His forgetfulness increased as he grew older.
gap	A pass between mountain peaks. The media were bridging the gap between government and people.
hiatus	A break between two vowels coming together but not in the same syllable, as in the ear and cooperate. There was a brief hiatus in the war with France.
lacuna	An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome. The journal has filled a lacuna in Middle Eastern studies.
lapse	A brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement. There was a considerable lapse of time between the two events.
leaving out	The act of departing.
neglect	The state of something that has been unused and neglected. The house was in a terrible state of neglect.
neglectfulness	The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern.
negligence	Failure to take proper care over something. His injury was due to the negligence of his employers.
oversight	Management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group. Effective oversight of the financial reporting process.
skip	A light bouncing step a skipping movement. He moved with a strange dancing skip.

Usage Examples of "Omission" as a noun

• To pay compensation for a wrongful act or omission.
• There are glaring omissions in the report.
• She searched the table for omissions.
• The omission of recent publications from his bibliography.

Associations of "Omission" (30 Words)

ambiguity	The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. We can detect no ambiguity in this section of the Act.
anachronism	A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. The town is a throwback to medieval times an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
antinomy	A contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable. There are not many short novels capable of accommodating bewildering antinomies.
blunder	Make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily. We were blundering around in the darkness.
conflicting	In disagreement. There are conflicting accounts of what occurred.
contradiction	Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas. The proposed new system suffers from a set of internal contradictions.
contradictory	A contradictory proposition. Perfect and imperfect are contradictory terms.
dissonant	Unsuitable or unusual in combination; clashing. Jackson employs both harmonious and dissonant colour choices.
err	Wander from a direct course or at random. The judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible.
error	A failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed. Goods dispatched to your branch in error.
flawed	Having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection. A flawed diamond.
inadvertence	The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities.
incompatibility	The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time. Our different backgrounds had something to do with our incompatibility.
incongruity	The state of being incongruous; incompatibility. The incongruity of his fleshy face and skinny body disturbed her.
inconsistency	The fact or state of being inconsistent. The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour.
incorrect	Not in accord with established usage or procedure. The doctor gave you incorrect advice.
irony	A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result. Irony is wasted on the stupid.
lapse	A failure to maintain a higher state. Tracing his lapse into petty crime.
misconceive	Judge or plan badly, typically on the basis of faulty understanding. Criticism of the trade surplus in Washington is misconceived.
misconception	An incorrect conception. Public misconceptions about antibiotic use.
misleading	Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently. Your article contains a number of misleading statements.
miss	Fail to catch (something thrown or dropped. How many periods have you missed.
misunderstand	Interpret in the wrong way. Don t misunderstand me I m not implying she should be working.
oversight	Management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group. Effective oversight of the financial reporting process.
oxymoron	A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
paradox	A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true. Parmenides was the original advocate of the philosophical power of paradox.
repulsion	Intense aversion. People talk about the case with a mixture of fascination and repulsion.
slip	A fielder at slip. He slipped me the key when nobody was looking.
solecism	A socially awkward or tactless act.
unsuited	Not right or appropriate. He was totally unsuited for the job.