Omission

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)  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.

Adjectives for Omission
voluntary; merciful; insidious.

Verbs for Omission
check—; frown on—; discover—; incur—; lament—; object to—; observe—; overcome —; protest—; rectify—; scoff at—; supply —; —detracts; —irks; —magnifies; —resounds; —scandalizes; —shocks.

Thesaurus
Sisyphean labor, abbreviation, abridgment, absence, arrearage, atrocity, bad policy, balk, ban, bar, barring, beggary, bevue, blank, blockade, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, boycott, breach, break, cancellation, censoring, censorship, chasm, circumscription, crime, crime against humanity, culpa, culpable negligence, deadly sin, debarment, debarring, defalcation, default, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deletion, delinquency, demarcation, deprivation, dereliction, destitution, disconformity, discontinuity, disregard, dropping, drought, editing, elimination, embargo, endless task, enormity, erasure, error, evil, exception, excision, excluding, exclusion, expurgation, failure, false move, false step, famine, fault, felony, gap, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, hiatus, imperfection, impolicy, impoverishment, impropriety, inadmissibility, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incompleteness, indiscretion, inexecution, inexpedience, inexpediency, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injunction, injury, injustice, inobservance, interval, laches, lack, lacuna, laissez-faire, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, laxity, laxness, leaving out, lockout, loose ends, loose thread, looseness, maladministration, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, misadministration, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, missing link, misstep, mortal sin, narrowing, need, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonadherence, nonadmission, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, offense, omitting, outage, outrage, overlook, overlooking, oversight, peccadillo, peccancy, permissiveness, poor stewardship, preclusion, preterition, procrastination, prohibition, rejection, relegation, remissness, repudiation, restriction, rough edges, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, skip, skipping, slackness, slight, slip, slipup, starvation, striking, stumble, taboo, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, ullage, unfulfillment, unobservance, unrigorousness, unutterable sin, venial sin, want, wantage, work of Penelope, wrong, wrong step, wrongdoing

Etymology
Originally from, omittere:. 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.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 省略 (shěng lüè)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pois jättäminen(1), laiminlyönti(2), poistaminen(3), poisto(3)
 * French: omission
 * German: Unterlassung
 * Hungarian: elmulasztás


 * Italian: omissione
 * Japanese: 省略 (しょうりゃく, shōryaku)
 * Korean: 생략 (saengnyak)
 * Portuguese: omissão
 * Russian: упущение (upuščénije)
 * Spanish: omisión
 * Swedish: utelämnande

Noun

 * 1) omission (act of omitting)