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Definition

something left out that should have been included

or:

a mistake resulting from neglect

She did not say something that wasn't true. Her lie was a lie of omission.

omission = leaving something out that should have been included

She looked for an omission in the list of planned expenses.

omission = missing item

We carry errors and omissions insurance.

omissions = mistakes resulting from neglect

The story was repeated; it was, in effect, exactly the same as before, without any deviation or omission.
Charles Dickens -- The Old Curiosity Shop

omission = something left out

Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

omission = being left out

"Finished," he said, speaking with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

omission = leaving out (something that should have been included)

They created brilliant omissions.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Such omissions of devotion, of affection, she knows now, do not matter in the end.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
I would have answered, but Firnen had already hatched and I did not want to lie to you, even by omission.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
This is my final honoring to Kwang, my last offering, which is the sole way of giving I have known in my life: an omission, solemn and prone.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Except by omission, she didn't even have to lie.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
If I tell Ma and Dad everything except about the deer, that's lying by omission, Ma says: not telling the whole truth.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Shiloh
JUDGE Colonel Drummond, I regret this omission, in the confusion, and the—I neglected—(Up, to CATES!
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
I noticed that he made no reference to the funeral, and this seemed to me a serious omission.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
How do you explain this voluntary omission?
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
I came to the rocky conclusion that a lie of omission was the only way to go.
Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
Deep down, though, I could suddenly feel the weight of all my withholding, so many lies and omissions.
Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen
But Mobutu was just getting organized in '61, and still given to peculiar omissions.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
An unintentional mistake resulted in the omission of his name from the list of those who had passed, or so Hisham decided.
Alaa Al Aswany -- The Kitchen Boy

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