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Absence vs Unrespect - What's the difference?

absence | unrespect |

As nouns the difference between absence and unrespect

is that absence is a state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away while unrespect is a lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.

absence

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en-noun)
  • A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.
  • * (rfdate) (w) 2:12
    • Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence .
  • Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
  • * (rfdate) - Kent
    • In the absence of conventional law.
  • Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
  • Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
  • * (rfdate), (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
    • Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.
  • * 1824-1829? , (w), (Imaginary Conversations)
    • To conquer that abstraction which is called absence .
  • (medical) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
  • (fencing) Lack of contact between blades.

    • Derived terms

    * absence makes the heart grow fonder

    Related terms

    * absent * absentee * absenteeism

    Antonyms

    * (state of being away) presence * existence, possession, sufficiency

    References

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    unrespect

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.
  • *1875 , Sydney Dobell, Balder. Later Miscellaneous Poems. Sonnets and other Short Poems :
    • Passionate with rains and sunshine, and, unheard, Have audience of your voices, but as one Who in a temple passes unrespect Between the kneeling suppliant and the saint, Meeting the uplifted face and the rapt eyes That look beyond?
  • *1877 , Clara Florida Guernsey, The Shawnee Prisoner :
    • Didyou not but yesterday prostrate upon the ground the young man for that he speak with unrespect of your Vashintone?
  • *2013 , Beatriz Griffin, 2009 and USA - the Undocumented African :
    • Again the undocumented African is saying that he goes to start doing the opposite of before, about to be unrespect with the government people, and from now he only going to be abusing me, trying to rape me, staying inside of me.
  • *2014 , Jillian Becker, The Keep :
    • [...] a gate on which they both leant, was temporarily latched with unrespect .