Truant vs Absenteeism - What's the difference?
truant | absenteeism |
Absent without permission, especially from school.
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Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
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*1603+ , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act 1, Scene 2
*:A truant disposition, good my lord.
*1772 , , p.149
*:While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
To play truant.
To idle away; to waste.
* Ford
To idle away time.
* Lowell
The state of being absent, especially frequently or without good reason; the practice of an absentee.
The practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
As nouns the difference between truant and absenteeism
is that truant is one who is absent without permission, especially from school while absenteeism is the state of being absent, especially frequently or without good reason; the practice of an absentee .As an adjective truant
is absent without permission, especially from school.As a verb truant
is to play truant.truant
English
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* truant officerNoun
(truants)Derived terms
* play truantVerb
(en verb)- the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
- I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
- (Shakespeare)
- By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.