Roget's Thesaurus

#187. Absence

Nouns

absence; inexistence etc. 2; nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi. emptiness etc. adj.; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa [Lat.]; exemption; hiatus etc. (interval) 198; lipotype. truant, absentee. nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive [Fr.].

Verbs

be absent etc. adj.; keep away, keep out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof. withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away etc. 293.

Adjectives

absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence etc. 2. empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited; tenantless; barren, sterile; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.

Adverbs

without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in default of; sans; behind one's back.

Phrases

the bird has flown, non est inventus [Lat.]. absence makes the heart grow fonder [Bayley]; absent in body but present in spirit [1 Corinthians verse 3]; absento nemo ne nocuisse velit [Lat.] [Propertius]; Achilles absent was Achilles still [Homer]; aux absents les os; briller par son absence [Fr.]; conspicuous by his absence [Russell]; in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet [B. Jonson].