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Truancy

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

n. The act or condition of being absent without permission.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties – refers especially to school absentees.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Truant conduct; the habit or practice of playing truant.

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

n. failure to attend (especially school)

Word Usage

"In similar fashion, the book-love of the minor Romantics (a kind of mimic or miniaturized bibliomania) allowed for a certain truancy to the high Romantic notions of authorship and the literary imagination that those same essayists were devoted to promulgating."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

nonattendance

Cross Reference

agent of truancy play hooky absenteeism

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

fluency

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

wispy-haired nonattendance eliminations woman disorderliness