omission

noun

1 there also appear to be some significant omissions from the Commission's report:

deletion, cut, exclusion, gap, blank, lacuna, hiatus;

oversight.

▷antonyms addition, inclusion.

2 the omission of the verb gives the sentence immediacy:

leaving out, exclusion, exception, non-inclusion, deletion, erasure, cut, excision, elimination, absence;

Linguistics aphesis, apheresis, apocope, apostrophe, asyndeton, elision, ellipsis, gapping, haplography, haplology, lipography, syncope;

rare expunction.

▷antonyms addition, inclusion.

3 the damage to the goods was not caused by any act or omission by the carrier:

negligence, neglect, neglectfulness, dereliction, forgetfulness, oversight, disregard, non-fulfilment, default, lapse, failure;

Law nonjoinder;

rare delinquency, misprision.

▷antonyms conscientiousness.

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