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Absence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The state of being away.

n. The time during which one is away.

n. Lack; want: an absence of leadership.

n. The state of being absent-minded; inattentiveness: absence of mind.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Lack of contact between blades.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

n. Want; destitution; withdrawal.

n. Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of being absent; the state of being away or not present: as, speak no ill of one in his absence.

n. The period of being away or absent: as, an absence of several weeks or years.

n. The state of being wanting; non-existence at the place and time spoken of; want; lack: as, the absence of evidence.

n. Absent-mindedness; inattention to things present: a shortened form of absence of mind.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. failure to be present

n. the state of being absent

n. the time interval during which something or somebody is away

n. the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy

Word Usage

"In woman very often voluptuous pleasure is entirely lacking; certainly such absence is far commoner in women than in men -- a condition of affairs which must on no account be confused with _absence of the sexual impulse_."

Antonym

presence

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

interval time interval

Cross Reference

absent-mindedness leave of absence absence of mind decree in absence

Form

absence makes the heart grow fonder

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

want destitution withdrawal

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

lack presence amount spite trace