ABSENCE meaning: Lack of presence or existence

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word absence:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

absence: Merriam-Webster.com
absence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
absence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
absence: Collins English Dictionary
absence: Vocabulary.com
Absence, absence: Wordnik
absence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
absence: Wiktionary
absence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
absence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
absence: Infoplease Dictionary
Absence, absence: Dictionary.com
absence: Online Etymology Dictionary
absence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Absence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
absence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
absence: Rhymezone
Absence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
absence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
absence: Free Dictionary
absence: Mnemonic Dictionary
absence: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
absence: Dictionary/thesaurus

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absence: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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absence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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absence: Idioms

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Absence: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
▸ noun:  The period of someone being away.
▸ noun:  Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
▸ noun:  Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
▸ noun:  Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
▸ noun:  (medicine) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
▸ noun:  (fencing) Lack of contact between blades.

Opposite:

presence, attendance, appearance, existence, occupancy

Types:

physical, mental, attitudinal, voluntary, involuntary, temporary, permanent, partial, total, more...

Phrases:

congenital absence, absence seizures, absence epilepsy, unauthorized absence, absence seizure, more...

Adjectives:

complete, total, long, entire, congenital, relative, virtual, apparent, temporary, general, prolonged

Colors:

black, white, gray, charcoal, ivory, alabaster, bone, pearl, silver, smoke

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