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Definition
something left out that should have been includedor:
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.
- We carry errors and omissions insurance.
- The story was repeated; it was, in effect, exactly the same as before, without any deviation or omission.Charles Dickens -- The Old Curiosity Shop
- 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
- "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
- 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
omission = missing item
omissions = mistakes resulting from neglect
omission = something left out
omission = being left out
omission = leaving out (something that should have been included)
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