Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Absence

Nouns
  • absence
  • inexistence etc. Inexistence
  • nonresidence, absenteeism
  • nonattendance, alibi. emptiness etc. adj.
  • void, vacuum
  • vacuity, vacancy
  • exemption
  • hiatus etc. (interval) Interval
  • lipotype. truant, absentee. nobody
  • nobody present, nobody on earth
  • not a soul
Verbs
  • be absent etc. adj.
  • keep away, keep out of the way
  • play truant, absent oneself, stay away
  • keep aloof, hold aloof. withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate
  • go away etc. [Initial motion from.] Departure.
Adjectives
  • absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home
  • missing
  • lost
  • wanting
  • omitted
  • nowhere to be found
  • inexistence etc. Inexistence. empty, void
  • vacant, vacuous
  • untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited
  • tenantless
  • barren, sterile
  • 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
  • absent in body but present in spirit" [Existence Corinthians verse Substantiality]
  • Achilles absent was Achilles still" [Homer]
  • aux absents les os
  • conspicuous by his absence" [Russell]
  • in the hope to meet shortly again and make our in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet" [B. Jonson].