Word
absentia
Phoneticsab·sen·tia
/æbˈsɛnʃə/
Definition
n. the state of being away from a place or not present in a situation. It is often used in legal or formal contexts to describe someone who is missing.
n. the state of being away from a place or not present in a specific context. Often used in legal or formal registers to describe the absence of a person or entity.
Real-World Examples
“Staff seemed unsurprised that parents who struggled to get their children to school found it challenging to attend court on time, and decided to hear their cases in absentia.” “Hasina was sentenced in absentia to death by hanging over her government’s deadly crackdown on the uprising.” Etymology
From Latin absentia (“being away, absence”), from absēns (“absent”), present active participle of absum (“to be away or absent”); compare absent.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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