Other forms: omissions
An omission is something left out — or the act of leaving it out. The gap, and the making of it.
It takes from. Law and reporting use it precisely, since acts and omissions are treated differently, and a failure to act can be an omission with consequences. A glaring omission is the standard phrase for something obviously missing from a list. There is a formal phrase, errors and omissions excepted, printed on invoices to reserve the right to correct mistakes. The verb is omit, and it doubles the t in omitted.
Latin
omissio
Old French
omission
Middle English
omissioun
English, today
omission
From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Latin omissio, from Latin omitto.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 10 of A Man Called Ove.
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