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What is the difference between withdrawal and absentment?

withdrawal | absentment |

As nouns the difference between withdrawal and absentment

is that withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money while absentment is : The state of being absent; withdrawal.

withdrawal

Noun

(en noun)
  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is addicted is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier
  • heroin withdrawal
    nicotine withdrawal
  • An act of withdrawing.
  • Antonyms

    * (sense, receiving from someone's care) deposit

    absentment

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare, obsolete): The state of being absent; withdrawal
  • :(Isaac Barrow)