absential

Of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.

Adjective

  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...
    • 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...
    • 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...

Origin

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

Derived

absentiality