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Exhaustion vs Omission - What's the difference?

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Exhaustion is a related term of omission.


As nouns the difference between exhaustion and omission

is that exhaustion is the point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up while omission is the act of omitting.

exhaustion

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
  • Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion , prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
  • (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
  • (dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
  • (maths) An exhaustive procedure

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * proof by exhaustion

    Related terms

    * exhaust

    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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