Absential
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Absential is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
Example Sentences
P denotes absential particular qualification, i.e. the particular qualification relation between an absence and its locus.
In presenting an absential conception of liberation as strictly limited to the cessation of experience, the Mīmāmsakas face a problem.
In both expectation and memory we find hope and mourning, traces of the absential in what is no longer and in what is yet to come. Where traditional ontology thinks of being as self~identical presence, Derrida thinks of it as a spectral ghost .
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include absentee, absentaneous, absent, abessive, wanting, privative.
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