Crossword-Solution: ABSENCE 7 letters, 138 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Absence n. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from
companionship; -- opposed to presence.
Absence n. Want; destitution; withdrawal.
Absence n. Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as,
absence of mind.

We have 138 clues for the answer “ABSENCE”

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"How like a winter hath my ___ been" (Shakespeare's Sonnet 97) 1 answer
"That common cure of love," according to Cervantes 1 answer
"___ makes the heart..." 1 answer
"___ sharpens love, presence strengthens it" (Ben Franklin) 1 answer
A in some teachers' records? 1 answer
Attendance record notation 1 answer
Attendance record spoiler 1 answer
Attendance stat 1 answer
Attendance-book notation 1 answer
Cause of more fondness? 1 answer
Complete lack 1 answer
Failure to appear 1 answer
Failure to show up 1 answer
Fondness cause, proverbially 1 answer
Fondness intensifier 1 answer
Fondness promoter. 1 answer
Heart-helping condition 1 answer
Issue for Marco Rubio, vis-a-vis his Senate voting 1 answer
It makes the heart grow fonder 1 answer
It makes the heart grow fonder, they say 1 answer
It may be excused 1 answer
It may be put down on a roll 1 answer
It's not showing up 1 answer
Item of classroom record. 1 answer
Item on a pupil's record 1 answer
Leave of ___ 1 answer
Missed day 1 answer
Missed day of school 1 answer
Perfect attendance spoiler 1 answer
Period away 1 answer
Possible truancy. 1 answer
Reason for a makeup test 1 answer
Roll call discovery 1 answer
Romance enhancer, proverbially 1 answer
Scholastic cut. 1 answer
State of being away 1 answer
The state of being away 1 answer
Truancy, e.g. 1 answer
Truant's offense 1 answer
opposite of presence 1 answer
state of being gone 1 answer
the state of being absent 1 answer
What makes the heart grow fonder 1 answer
Attendance book notation 2 answers
Being away. 2 answers
NONAPPEARANCE 2 answers
Non-attendance 2 answers
Total lack 2 answers
not a living thing 2 answers
Report card notation 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABSENCE (5)

The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The United States' Constitution Founding Fathers 1975
Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Oft in her absence mimic Fansie wakes To imitate her; but misjoyning shapes, Wilde work produces oft, and most in dreams, Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Thus, after an absence of three years and one month, I was once more permitted to return to my old home at Baltimore.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
The boy had been left at the store while his sister went to the doctor’s office, and in her absence a dog had chased his kitten up the pole.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with ABSENCE (3)

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism
They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but absence also dulls the memory and then we tend to forget who we were missing in the first place.
Anthony T. Hincks
The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare …
Gary L. Francione
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 72 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).