the state of being absent
failure to be present
the time interval during which something or somebody is away
the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
