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Truant vs Absenteeism - What's the difference?

truant | absenteeism |

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

(-)
  • Absent without permission, especially from school.
  • :
  • Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
  • :
  • *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.
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
  • Derived terms

    * truant officer

    Noun

    (truants)
  • One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
  • Derived terms

    * play truant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play truant.
  • the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
  • To idle away; to waste.
  • * Ford
  • I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
  • To idle away time.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • * Lowell
  • By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.

    absenteeism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • See also

    * presenteeism

    References