omission

• abbreviation
• blank
• breach
• break
• cancellation
• carelessness
• chasm
• condensation
• cutting out
• deduction
• default
• deletion
• delinquency
• dereliction
• disregard
• disregardance
• elimination
• elision
• excluding
• exclusion
• failing
• failure
• forgetfulness
• gap
• hiatus
• ignoring
• inadvertence
• inadvertency
• lack
• lacuna
• lapse
• leaving out
• missing
• neglect
• negligence
• noninclusion
• overlook
• overlooking
• oversight
• passing over
• preclusion
• preterition
• pretermission
• prohibition
• reduction
• repudiation
• skip
• slighting
• slip
• subtraction
• withholding

• accomplishment
• accretion
• accrual
• achievement
• addendum
• addition
• allowance
• augmentation
• boost
• closure
• continuation
• continuity
• expansion
• gain
• inclusion
• increase
• increment
• insertion
• juncture
• more
• perfection
• permission
• plus
• raise
• regard
• remembrance
• respect
• rise
• success
• supplement

• noun
  1. The act of omitting.
  2. The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
  3. Something deleted or left out.
  4. Something not done or neglected.
  5. (grammar) 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.

• The omission of critical details from the report caused confusion.
• It was a simple omission, not a deliberate mistake.
• His omission from the guest list was a misunderstanding.
• The lawyer argued that the omission of evidence was detrimental to the case.
• The omission of her name from the credits was an oversight.

abbreviating

gaff

lack

lacuna

failure

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