Verb

• S: (v) absent, remove (go away or leave) "He absented himself"

Adjective

• S: (adj) absent (not being in a specified place)
• S: (adj) lacking, absent, missing, wanting (nonexistent) "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
• S: (adj) absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty (lost in thought; showing preoccupation) "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
• similar to
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) absentmindedness [Related to: absentminded] (preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored)
• W: (n) abstractedness [Related to: abstracted] (preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else)
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