Omission may refer to:
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Omission (Catholicism)
In Christianity, a sin of omission is a sin committed by willingly not performing a certain action. Its opposite is the sin of commission, i.e. a sin resulting from an action performed.
Catholicism
In the Catholic view, a sin of omission is a ...
, a type of sin
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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 Legal liability, liability only when the la ...
, 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 people 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 process ...
, 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
The iceberg theory or theory of omission is a writing technique coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway. As a young journalist, Hemingway had to focus his newspaper reports on immediate events, with very little context or interpretation. When h ...
, a writing technique
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The Omission
''The Omission'' ( es, La omisión) is a 2018 Argentine drama film directed by Sebastián Schjaer. It was screened in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival
The 68th annual Berlin International Film Festival too ...
'', 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) works to forget traumatic memories.
This expression is often used for post-war rewriting of history in a more coherent way acc ...
, 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 deceiving or misleading someone. The practice of communicating lies is called lying. A person who communicates a lie may be termed a liar. Lies can be inter ...
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