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