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state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence.
- Phillippians 2:12
Want; lack; destitution; withdrawal.
In the Absence of conventional law.
- Kent
Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, Absence of mind.
Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.
- Joseph Addison
To conquer that abstraction which is called absence.
- Landor