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Absence
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English
Etymology
French, from Latin absentia. See Absent
Noun
absence (plural: absences )
- A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship ; -- opposed to presence.
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- Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phillippians 2:12
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- Want; destitution ; withdrawal.
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- In the absence of conventional law. - Kent
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- Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.
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- Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind. - Addison
- To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. - Landor
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Translations
- Dutch: afwezigheid
- French: Absence
- German: Abwesenheit
- Ido: absenteso
- Interlingua: Absentia
- Italian: Assenza
- Korean: 부재 [不在] (bujae)
- Norwegian: fravær n, mangel c
- Portuguese: Ausência
- Spanish: Ausencia
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