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absential

absential adjective: of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.

Adjective

absential

  1. Of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
    • P denotes absential particular qualification, i.e. the particular qualification relation between an absence and its locus.2012, C. Goekoop, The Logic of Invariable Concomitance in the Tattvacintāmaṇi: Gaṅgeśa’s Anumitinirūpaṇa and Vyāptivāda with Introduction Translation and Commentary, Springer Science & Business...
    • In presenting an absential conception of liberation as strictly limited to the cessation of experience, the Mīmāmsakas face a problem.2013, Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133

Origin of absential

In form apparently from rare Latin absentiālis; as if from absence + -ial with the ending changed as in other pairs like essence, essential.

Words formed from absential

Questions about absential

What does absential mean?
Absential means of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
What part of speech is absential?
Absential is an adjective.

Words near absential in the dictionary

  1. absenters
  2. absentest
  3. absenteth
  4. absentia
  5. absentia epileptica
  6. absential
  7. absentiality
  8. absenting
  9. absently
  10. absentment
  11. absentminded

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