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Truant vs Truancy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between truant and truancy

is that truant is one who is absent without permission, especially from school while truancy is the act of shirking from responsibilities and duties – refers especially to school absentees.

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.

    truancy

    English

    Noun

    (truancies)
  • The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties – refers especially to school absentees.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * absenteeism * play hooky