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omission vs oversight

oversight vs omission

omission and oversight both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
omission Yes No No No
oversight Yes No No No
As nouns, oversight is a hyponym of omission; that is, oversight is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than omission:
  • omission: neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
  • oversight: an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
Other hyponyms of omission include inadvertence, pretermission, elision, exception, exclusion.
omission (noun) oversight (noun)
a mistake resulting from neglect a mistake resulting from inattention
neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
something that has been omitted
Difference between omission and oversight

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