absence
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition the state of being absent
- definition failure to be present
- definition the time interval during which something or somebody is away
- definition the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy