Omission may refer to:
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Sin of omission, a sin committed by willingly not performing a certain action
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Omission (law)
In law, an omission is a failure to act, which generally attracts different legal consequences from positive conduct. In the criminal law, an omission will constitute an ''actus reus'' and give rise to liability only when the law imposes a duty ...
, a failure to act, with legal consequences
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Omission bias
Omission bias is the phenomenon in which people prefer omission (inaction) over commission (action), and tend to judge harm as a result of commission more negatively than harm as a result of omission. It can occur due to a number of processes, incl ...
, a tendency to favor inaction over action
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Purposeful omission
Purposeful omission is the leaving out of particular nonessential details that can be assumed by the reader (if used in literature), according to the context and attitudes/gestures made by the characters in the stories. It allows for the reader to ...
, a literary method
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Theory of omission, a writing technique
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The Omission'', a 2018 Argentine film
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Selective omission
Selective omission is a memory bias.
In collective memory, it is a bias where a group (state, media, public opinion) makes efforts to forget and not re-introduce traumatic or unwanted memories.
This expression is often used for post-war rewr ...
, an effort to forget traumatic memories
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Lying by omission
A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deception, deceiving or misleading someone. The practice of communicating lies is called lying. A person who communicates a lie may be termed a liar. Lies ...
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