What is the difference between absentee and absence?
absentee | absence | Related terms |
A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
(chiefly, British, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
* 1840 , , "Letter 374: to Mr. Moore (24 May 1820)," in The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life , John Murray (London), page 317:
One that is nonexistent or lacking.
A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.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.
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Absence is a related term of absentee.
As nouns the difference between absentee and absence
is that absentee is a person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc while absence is a state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.As an adjective absentee
is pertaining to one that is absent.absentee
English
Noun
(en noun)- My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee !
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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 .
