negligence vs omission

negligence

noun
  • The state of being negligent. 

  • The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation. 

  • The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury. 

omission

noun
  • The act of omitting. 

  • Something not done or neglected. 

  • 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. 

  • An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out. 

  • The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do. 

How often have the words negligence and omission occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )