| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, French leave, absenteeism, cut*, hooky, no show, nonappearance, nonattendance, truancy, vacancy |
Antonyms: |
existence, presence |
| 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, unavailability, void, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, plenty |
| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | [Nullibiety] Absence. |
| Category: | 3. EXISTENCE IN SPACE |
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-nouns
absence; inexistence; nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi., emptiness; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa; exemption; hiatus (interval); lipotype., truant, absentee., nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive.
-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.
-adjectives
absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence., 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 |
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| 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, exiguousness, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, shortage, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, excess, plentifulness, plenty, sufficiency |
| 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, overlooking, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing |
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advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
Synonyms: |
absence, bug*, dearth, defalcation, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, inability to hack it, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness |
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adequacy, enough, faultlessness, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity |
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
Synonyms: |
absence, ambit, amplitude, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile, expanse, extension, extent, far piece, farness, gap, good ways, heavens, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, provinces, purlieu, purview, radius, reach, remoteness, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |