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omission
noun
Reveal meaning and examples
Something left out, or the act of failing to include or do something.
The omission of the meeting date made the otherwise clear notice unusable.
When a student newsletter printed the wrong room for a poetry reading, its editor chose to acknowledge the mistake as soon as a reader contacted her. She explained that even careful editors can err, but she did not use that general truth to dismiss the inconvenience. An omission had made the problem harder to catch: the proof sheet left out the organizer's confirmation message.