Absence vs Awayness - What's the difference?
absence | awayness |
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.
* (rfdate) (w) 2:12
Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
* (rfdate) - Kent
Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
* (rfdate), (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 1824-1829? , (w), (Imaginary Conversations)
(medical) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
(fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.
* 1925 , Aldous Huxley, Those barren leaves :
* 1942 , Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Balinese character, a photographic analysis :
* 1960 , Jane Belo, Trance in Bali :
* 1991 , Wilfred G. Cartey, Whispers from the Caribbean :
* 2006 , Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald, Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education :
As nouns the difference between absence and awayness
is that absence is a state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away while awayness is the state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.absence
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)- Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence .
- In the absence of conventional law.
- Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.
- To conquer that abstraction which is called absence .
Derived terms
* absence makes the heart grow fonderAntonyms
* (state of being away) presence * existence, possession, sufficiencyReferences
awayness
English
Noun
(-)- It was the awayness' of it that first attracted me to the place. The vast ' awayness from what I had called home up till the time I first stayed there — that was what made me decide to settle for good at Miss Carruthers's.
- These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]
- They describe the trances of the balian or seer of the village they studied most exhaustively as beginning with such "awayness ," then passing into a period when "the seer exhibits emotions never otherwise expressed except on the stage [...]
- Clearly then, two separate spaces, the countries of origin — the Caribbean — and the countries to which they have migrated — England, Canada, the United States — become the figural polarities linking together the condition of awayness , [...]
- Potentially, “awayness ” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.