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Inadvertence vs Omission - What's the difference?

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Inadvertence is a related term of omission.


As nouns the difference between inadvertence and omission

is that inadvertence is the state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence while omission is the act of omitting.

inadvertence

English

Noun

  • The state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
    • Many mistakes proceed from inadvertence .
    Inadvertency , or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. — Jeremy Taylor.
  • An effect or result of inattention; an oversight or mistake from negligence.

    • omission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of omitting.
  • The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
  • 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.

    • Usage notes

    Following are common examples of omission using an apostrophe: : six o’clock (shortening of “six of the clock”) : The high school class of ’69 (shortening of “1969”) : O’er there (shortening of “over there”) * From Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : *: S’pose people left money laying around where he was—what did he do? He collared it. S’pose he contracted to do a thing; and you paid him, and didn’t set down there and see that he done it—what did he do? He always done the other thing. S’pose he opened his mouth—what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every time. That’s the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we’d ’a’ had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d ’a’ fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.

    See also

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