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Definition of Absence
Absence

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

Want; destitution; withdrawal.

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

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Absence Quotations

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Absence Translations

absence in Dutch is afwezigheid, absentie, mangel
absence in German is Abwesenheit {f}, Abwesenheit {f}, Fehlen {n}
absence in Italian is mancare, assenza
absence in Spanish is ausencia, falta


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