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absence - 13 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
| Synonyms: | French leave*, absenteeism, cut*, vacancy, AWOL, hooky, no show, nonappearance, nonattendance, truancy |
| Antonyms: | existence, presence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of lacking something needed or usual |
| Synonyms: | dearth, deficiency, drought, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, omission, privation, void, want, unavailability |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, plenty |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
be absent; keep away, keep out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof., withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away [more].
-adjectives
absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence [more]., empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited; tenantless; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.
-adverbs
without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in default of; sans; behind one's back.
-phrases
the bird has flown; non est inventus ["It is not found" (Latin)].
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| Antonyms: | presence |
| Main Entry: | absenteeism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
| Synonyms: | absence, defection, desertion, skipping, truancy |
| Antonyms: | attendance, presence |
| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, default, defect, deficiency, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, shortage, want, exiguousness, rareness, scantiness, scantness, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, excess, plenty, sufficiency, plentifulness |
| Main Entry: | default |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure; want |
| Synonyms: | absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing, overlooking |
| Antonyms: | advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
| Synonyms: | absence, bug*, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shrinkage, shrinking, stint, want, exiguity, insufficience, retrenchment, scantiness, shortness, slightness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | miss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure |
| Synonyms: | absence, blunder, default, defect, error, fault, loss, mishap, mistake, omission, oversight, slip, want |
| Antonyms: | success, triumph, win |
| Main Entry: | paucity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, shortage, smallness, fewness, insufficience, scantiness, scarceness, slenderness, slightness, sparseness, sparsity |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, plenty |
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
| Synonyms: | absence, ambit, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile*, expanse, extension, extent, gap, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, purlieu, radius, reach, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width, amplitude, far piece, farness, good ways, heavens, provinces, purview, remoteness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, need |
| Synonyms: | absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, destitution, exigency, famine, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, meagerness, paucity, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, exiguousness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, neediness, pauperism, scantiness, skimpiness |
| Notes: | wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need |
| Antonyms: | abundance, plenty |
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