omission

English Thesaurus

1. a mistake resulting from neglect (noun.act)

hypernym	:	error, fault, mistake,
definition	:	a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention (noun.act)

hyponym	:	failure,
definition	:	an unexpected omission (noun.act)

2. neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	disregard, neglect,
definition	:	lack of attention and due care (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	inadvertence, oversight,
definition	:	an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	pretermission,
definition	:	letting pass without notice (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	elision, exception, exclusion,
definition	:	a deliberate act of omission (noun.cognition)

3. any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases (noun.process)

hypernym	:	linguistic process,
definition	:	a process involved in human language (noun.process)

hyponym	:	aphaeresis, apheresis,
definition	:	(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' (noun.process)

hyponym	:	aphesis,
definition	:	the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' (noun.process)

hyponym	:	elision,
definition	:	omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) (noun.process)

hyponym	:	eclipsis, ellipsis,
definition	:	omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences (noun.process)

4. something that has been omitted (noun.state)

hypernym	:	disuse, neglect,
definition	:	the state of something that has been unused and neglected (noun.state)

5. a mistake resulting from neglect (noun.act)

derivation	:	drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit,
definition	:	leave undone or leave out (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out,
definition	:	prevent from being included or considered or accepted (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	cut, skip,
definition	:	intentionally fail to attend (verb.stative)

6. neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit,
definition	:	leave undone or leave out (verb.cognition)

7. a mistake resulting from neglect (noun.act)

derivation	:	drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit,
definition	:	leave undone or leave out (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out,
definition	:	prevent from being included or considered or accepted (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	cut, skip,
definition	:	intentionally fail to attend (verb.stative)

8. neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit,
definition	:	leave undone or leave out (verb.cognition)