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inattendance

inattendance noun: lack or neglect of attendance.

Noun

inattendance (uncountable)

  1. Lack or neglect of attendance.
    • Mary Dedalus, Stephen's mother, died 26 June 1903; Bloom belatedly apologizes for his inattendance to her burial due to the "vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag)..."1972, Gene Arnold Rister, The Odyssean Backgrounds of Ulysses: Joyce's Sources and His Development of the Homeric Motif, Volume 2, page 310
    • I offered that this certainly shed some light on his noticeable absence from the building and his inattendance to our affairs, particularly the faint yet menacing odor of natural gas emanating from the stub of rusting pipe...2006, Tracy Letts, Man from Nebraska: A Play, page 59

Origin of inattendance

From in- + attendance.

Questions about inattendance

What does inattendance mean?
Inattendance means lack or neglect of attendance.
What part of speech is inattendance?
Inattendance is a noun.

Words near inattendance in the dictionary

  1. inassuageable
  2. inastute
  3. inate
  4. inattackable
  5. inattend
  6. inattendance
  7. inattention
  8. inattentional
  9. inattentional blindness
  10. inattentional deafness
  11. inattentionally

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