What is another word for absences?

Pronunciation: [ˈabsənsɪz] (IPA)

The term absences refer to the state or instance of being away or not present. Various synonyms can be used to describe the same, such as nonattendance, absenteeism, deficiency, fault, lack, or shortage. These words usually connote a negative connotation and refer to the absence of someone or something that should be present. Other synonyms that can be used for the term absences include default, omission, insufficiency, vacancy, or void. Depending on the context of the usage, different synonyms can convey various meanings, such as the absence of an individual from a workplace or an event, or in medical terms, the inability to recall memories.

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Usage examples for Absences

Was it because he had become a manager, and governed the business during her father's frequent absences?
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
She did not cease her long absences from the house; but every one knew that on these occasions she was off on one of her solitary wanderings; and she came home in the evening apparently more contented than ever.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
Beaton did not go to the office during the week that followed upon this conclusion; but they were used there to these sudden absences of his, and, as his work for the time was in train, nothing was made of his staying away, except the sarcastic comment which the thought of him was apt to excite in the literary department.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells

Famous quotes with Absences

  • Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
    Mary Astell
  • With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
    Louis Auchincloss
  • Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
    George Byron
  • Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
    George Gordon Byron
  • In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
    Tom Nolan

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