omitting
Failing to include
Omitting is leaving something out, whether deliberately or by oversight.
You might omit a detail from a story, omit someone's name from a list, or omit a step in a process.
She was hurt to find her name omitted from the credits.
What's omitted may be forgotten, excluded, or simply deemed unnecessary.
Being barred from participation
- absenceState of not being
- leaving outFailing to include
- barringExcluding from consideration
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
rejection · preclusion · expunction · deletion · removal · excision · dropping · skipping
Moving aside to avoid
- circumventingAvoiding by going around
- evadingSkillfully keeping away from
- dodgingAvoiding by moving aside
- eschewingDeliberately avoiding something
shunning · avoiding · skirting · ignoring · disregarding · glossing over · passing over · withholding
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- forgetfulnessFailure to retain information
- inattentionLack of focus
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
inadvertence · lapse · slip · unmindfulness · heedlessness · remissness · dereliction · failure
Dropped sounds in speech
- ellipsisMark indicating omitted words
- abridgmentShortened form of text
- truncationCutting something shorter
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
curtailment · synopsis · reduction · brevity · shortening · compression · pruning · cropping
exclusion
Being barred from participation
- absenceState of not being
- leaving outFailing to include
- barringExcluding from consideration
elimination · rejection · preclusion · expunction · deletion · removal · excision · dropping · skipping · bypassing
sidestepping
Moving aside to avoid
- circumventingAvoiding by going around
- evadingSkillfully keeping away from
- dodgingAvoiding by moving aside
eschewing · shunning · avoiding · skirting · ignoring · disregarding · glossing over · passing over · withholding · suppressing
oversight
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- forgetfulnessFailure to retain information
- inattentionLack of focus
carelessness · inadvertence · lapse · slip · unmindfulness · heedlessness · remissness · dereliction · failure · missing
elision
Dropped sounds in speech
- ellipsisMark indicating omitted words
- abridgmentShortened form of text
- truncationCutting something shorter
condensation · curtailment · synopsis · reduction · brevity · shortening · compression · pruning · cropping · trimming
- avoiding tacticsdodging, evading, sidestepping, skirting, deflecting
- exclusionsexclude, exclusion, excluding, except, exception
- wordplaypun, puns, punning, punny, punster
- cutting outtrimming, clipping, cropping, pruning, snipping
- shorteningabbreviation, abbreviating, abridgment, truncating, truncation
omittingincluding
Containing as part
adding · incorporating · inserting · comprising · encompassing
omittingmentioning
Referring to briefly
disclosing · stating · revealing · citing · noting