Lying vs Omission - What's the difference?
lying | omission |
* 1811 , ,
An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
* Jeremy Taylor
The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
* Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
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.
As nouns the difference between lying and omission
is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while omission is the act of omitting.As a verb lying
is .lying
English
(wikipedia lying)Verb
(head)Sense and SensibilityThe Free Library , Chapter 19:
- Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..
Noun
(en noun)- But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?