omission
173 synonyms found
- abbreviation
- abridgment
- absence
- arrearage
- atrocity
- bad policy
- balk
- ban
- barring
- beggary
- bevue
- blank
- blockade
- blue-penciling
- bowdlerization
- boycott
- breach
- cancellation
- censoring
- censorship
- circumscription
- crime
- crime against humanity
- culpa
- culpable negligence
- deadly sin
- debarment
- debarring
- defalcation
- default
- defectiveness
- deficit
- deletion
- delinquency
- demarcation
- deprivation
- dereliction
- destitution
- disconformity
- discontinuity
- disregard
- dropping
- drought
- editing
- elimination
- embargo
- endless task
- enormity
- erasure
- exception
- excision
- excluding
- exclusion
- expurgation
- false move
- false step
- famine
- felony
- genocide
- guilty act
- heavy sin
- imperfection
- impolicy
- inadmissibility
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- incompleteness
- indiscretion
- inexecution
- inexpedience
- inexpediency
- inexpiable sin
- iniquity
- injustice
- inobservance
- laches
- lack
- lacuna
- laissez-faire
- lapse
- lapsus calami
- lapsus linguae
- laxity
- laxness
- leaving out
- lockout
- loose ends
- loose thread
- looseness
- maladministration
- malefaction
- malfeasance
- malpractice
- malum
- minor wrong
- misadministration
- miscue
- misdeed
- misdirection
- misfeasance
- misgovernment
- misguidance
- mishandling
- mismanagement
- misrule
- missing link
- misstep
- mortal sin
- narrowing
- need
- neglect
- neglectfulness
- negligence
- nonachievement
- nonadherence
- nonadmission
- noncompliance
- nonconformance
- nonconformity
- nonconsummation
- nondischarging
- nonexecution
- nonfeasance
- nonfulfillment
- noninterference
- nonobservance
- nonperformance
- nonrestriction
- omitting
- outage
- overlook
- overlooking
- oversight
- peccadillo
- peccancy
- permissiveness
- poor stewardship
- preclusion
- preterition
- procrastination
- prohibition
- relegation
- remissness
- repudiation
- rough edges
- shortage
- shortfall
- sin
- sin of commission
- sin of omission
- sinful act
- Sisyphean labor
- skip
- skipping
- slackness
- slipup
- starvation
- stumble
- tort
- transgression
- trespass
- trip
- ullage
- unfulfillment
- unobservance
- unrigorousness
- unutterable sin
- venial sin
- want
- wantage
- work of Penelope
- wrong step
- wrongdoing
Definition
(n) :
the act of omitting; the act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do