Definition for Absence:

• The being away or not present: want: inattention.

Synonyms for Absence:

• n.

  •
  • need.
  •absence (noun)
  • nonexistence,
  • abstraction,
  • emptiness,
  • petit mal epilepsy,
  • truancy,
  • vacancy,
  • void,
  • vacuity,
  • omission.
  •act (noun)
  • absence.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • nonappearance.
  •dearth (noun)
  • un-commonnesses,
  • rarenesses,
  • exiguousnesses,
  • in-frequencies,
  • in-frequency,
  • slim picking,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-adequacies,
  • un commonnesses,
  • in frequency,
  • un-commonness,
  • sparsities,
  • un commonness,
  • in frequencies,
  • in adequacy,
  • in-adequacy,
  • uncommonnesses.
  •default (noun)
  • de-faults,
  • over looking,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • de faults,
  • overlookings,
  • non payment,
  • de fault,
  • over-sight,
  • over-sights,
  • dis regards,
  • non-payments,
  • dis-regards,
  • in sufficiency,
  • de-fault,
  • over sights,
  • over sight,
  • dis regard,
  • over-looking,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • non payments,
  • dis-regard,
  • in-sufficiency.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • de merits,
  • insufficiences,
  • de-merits,
  • de merit,
  • inability hack it,
  • de-merit.
  •distance (noun)
  • ex-tension,
  • pro vince,
  • farnesses,
  • ex tent,
  • re-moves,
  • out-posts,
  • ex tension,
  • re move,
  • re-move,
  • ex-tent,
  • out-skirts,
  • far pieces,
  • out posts,
  • ex tents,
  • pro-vince,
  • pro vinces,
  • ex-tensions,
  • pro-vinces,
  • out skirt,
  • out-skirt,
  • ex-tents,
  • out skirts.
  •paucity (noun)
  • fewnesses,
  • slendernesses,
  • sparsenesses.
  •state (noun)
  • Absence Seizure.
  •want (noun)
  • skimpinesses,
  • pauperisms.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • aught,
  • flunk out,
  • school-leaver,
  • shortage,
  • drop out,
  • entrant,
  • go back,
  • loss,
  • get in,
  • time off,
  • enrollment,
  • pass out,
  • zilch,
  • absenteeism,
  • school refusal,
  • get into,
  • matriculate,
  • tardy,
  • deficit,
  • Nihility,
  • entrance,
  • registration,
  • graduate,
  • bankruptcy,
  • attend,
  • Without,
  • poverty,
  • stay off,
  • attendance,
  • audit,
  • excuse,
  • skive,
  • nonattendance,
  • shortfall,
  • enroll,
  • intake.
  •
  • go up,
  • absent,
  • here,
  • wanting,
  • nothing,
  • none,
  • null,
  • suspension,
  • nil,
  • missing,
  • away,
  • quit,
  • suspend,
  • leave,
  • no one,
  • transfer.
  •
  • off,
  • nothingness,
  • zero,
  • nobody,
  • gone,
  • go down,
  • nix.

Paraphrases for Absence:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    lacks.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    presence.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    absenteeism.

• Independent

  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    absent.
  • Adjective
    absent.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Leaves, absent.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    paragraphs, shortage, disappearance, shortcoming, absent, scarcity, existence, inadequacy, insufficiency, inability, paucity, fact, shortfall, interruption, weakness, failing, departure, inaction, deprivation.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    Non-existence.
  • Proper noun, singular
    failure.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    unavailability, non-availability, absentia, Non-existence, omission, dearth, availability, impossibility, Non-appearance, flaw, failure.
  • Verb, base form
    absent.

Antonyms for Absence:

• n.

  • act
    presence.
  • Other antonyms:
    deluge, hoard, quantity, flood, cache, amplitude, plenty, volume, fund, much, superabundance, bounty, surplus, enough, stock, surfeit, supply, oversupply, gobs, pile, stash, fill, sufficiency, excess, overabundance, plentifulness, loads, pool, adequacy, stockpile, plenteousness.

Absence Sentence Examples:

• And, as if to cut off all further explanation, he asks: Was no one here in my absence?

• He had doubtless been waiting for some absence of his father's.

Homophones for Absence:

• appeasing, apogamous, avicenniaceae, apogamic, apocynaceae, abiogenesis, apocynaceous.

Holonyms for Absence:

• n.

  • state
    Epilepsia Minor, petit mal, petit mal epilepsy.

Hypernym for Absence:

• n.

  • act
    absenteeism, cut, default.
  • state
    complex absence, subclinical absence, pure absence, awayness, simple absence, nonoccurrence.

Hyponym for Absence:

• n.

  • act
    nonattendance.
  • state
    ictus, want, raptus, deficiency, seizure, lack.
  • time
    time interval, interval.