elision
/ɪˈlɪʒən/
noun
- The act of leaving out a sound or syllable when speaking, especially to make speech faster or smoother.
- Poets sometimes use elision to make lines fit a certain meter.
- In casual speech, 'probably' often becomes 'probly' through elision.
- The elision of the 't' in 'often' is common in American English.
- The act of deliberately leaving something out or ignoring it.
- The elision of certain details in the story changed its meaning.
- Historians criticized the elision of women's contributions from the textbook.
- The report's elision of key facts made it seem misleading.