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absence

Roget category 187

2. Words relating to space
2.1. Space in general
›› 2.1.3. Existence in space

#187. [Nullibiety.1] Absence

noun

absenceinexistence etc. 2nonresidence, absenteeism nonattendance, alibi.
emptiness etc. adj. — void, vacuumvacuity, vacancytabula rasa [Lat.]exemptionhiatus etc. (interval) 198lipotype.
truant, absentee.
nobodynobody present, nobody on earthnot a soulame qui vive [Fr.].

verb

be absent etc. adj. — keep away, keep out of the wayplay truant, absent oneself, stay awaykeep aloof, hold aloof.
withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacatego away etc. 293.

adjective

absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from homemissing lostwantingomittednowhere to be foundinexistence etc. 2.
empty, voidvacant, vacuousuntenanted, unoccupied, uninhabitedtenantlessbarren, steriledesert, deserteddevoiduninhabitable.

adverb

without, minus, nowhereelsewhereneither here nor therein default ofsansbehind one's back.

phrase

the bird has flown, non est inventus [Lat.].
absence makes the heart grow fonder" [Bayley]; absent in body but present in spirit" [1 Corinthians verse 3]; absento nemo ne nocuisse velit [Lat.] [Propertius]; Achilles absent was Achilles still" [Homer]; aux absents les osbriller par son absence [Fr.]conspicuous by his absence" [Russell]; in the hope to meet shortly again and make our in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet" [B. Jonson].

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