- (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
- (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
- (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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