absence
IPA: ˈæbsʌns
noun
- A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
- The period of someone being away.
- Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
- Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
- Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
- (medicine) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
- (fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
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Examples of "absence" in Sentences
- Satiety is the absence of hunger.
- It's simply the absence of theism.
- Note the absence of the bull and lion.
- The problem is the absence of a default.
- The absence of the term Faggot is deafening.
- The absence of the indefinite article is not absolute.
- Rectitude and honour being on extended leave of absence is why.
- The rest of the year, they are on leave of absence or on sabbatical.
- A peculiar aspect of the lake is the absence of leaves floating on the waters.
- The apostasy was not a period of absence of truth, but of absence of authority.
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