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absence

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of absence

1 a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful

  • the absence of volunteers to be troop leaders is putting the scouting program in real jeopardy
Synonyms of absence

lack, need, needfulness, want
Words Related to absence

deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency

dearth, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness

defect, minus

deprivation, famishment, privation

demand, essential, necessity, requirement, requisite
Near Antonyms of absence

adequacy, enough, sufficiency

fund, pool, stock, supply

excess, fill, overabundance, oversupply, plenty, surfeit, surplus

hoard, stockpile

2 the fact or state of being absent

  • in the absence of ferry service to the island, the ecotourists had to charter a plane
Synonyms of absence

dearth, lack, want
Words Related to absence

deficiency, deficit, failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness, undersupply

deprivation, loss, necessity, need, needfulness, omission

privation

blankness, emptiness, vacuity, vacuum, void
Near Antonyms of absence

abundance, amplitude, bounty, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty, wealth

adequacy, sufficiency

excess, overabundance, oversupply, superabundance, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood

bushel, deal, gobs, heap, loads, lot, mass, mountain, much, oodles, peck, pile, pot, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, volume, wad

fund, pool, stock, supply

cache, hoard, stash, stockpile
Antonyms of absence

presence

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