Omission Definition

ō-mĭshən
omissions
noun
omissions
An omitting or being omitted; specif., failure to do as one should.
Webster's New World
The state of having been omitted.
American Heritage
Anything omitted.
Webster's New World
Something left out or left undone.
Webster's New World Law
The act of neglecting to do something required by law; especially one’s duty.
Webster's New World Law
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Other Word Forms of Omission

Noun

Singular:
omission
Plural:
omissions

Origin of Omission

  • Originally from Latin, omittere (“to send"). Post-classical Latin introduced the term omission; from the past participial stem of omittere, omiss- and the suffix -ion. This word was taken into Middle French and subsequently Anglo-Norman which heavily influenced the English language.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Late Latin omissiō omissiōn- from Latin omissus past participle of omittere to disregard omit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Omission Sentence Examples

  • His regard for the young nobleman' last named dictated the omission in the later editions of his Moral Sentiments of the name of the celebrated ancestor of the duke, whom he had associated with Mandeville as author of one of the "licentious systems" reviewed in the seventh part of that work.

  • This omission is sometimes believed to be an error.

  • To correct that omission we provide the details here - see below.

  • The principal difference from the manner described of making black tea lies in the omission of the withering and fermenting, and the substitution for those of a steaming or panning process.

  • It can still be pretty clearly shown in detail that these four codices deviated from one another in points of orthography, in the insertion or omission of a wa (" and ") and such-like minutiae; but these variations nowhere affect the sense.

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Words Starting With

OOMOMI

Words Ending With

NONION

Unscrambles

omission

Words Starting With O and Ending With N

Starts With O & Ends With NStarts With OM & Ends With NStarts With O & Ends With ON

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With O8 Letter Words Ending With N