omissions

noun

(uncountable) The act of omitting.

(uncountable) The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.

(countable) An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.

Something not done or neglected.

(grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.

Roots

mittomiss- · Latin · send

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Where does omissions come from?

The word omissions breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root miss-, from Latin mitto (“send”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.