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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

absential en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
    • 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 Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133:
    • 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 ... 2013, Charles Bambach, Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 267:
    • 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 Anumitinirūpaṇa and Vyāptivāda with Introduction Translation and Commentary, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 24:

Deriveds

absentiality

Translations (2)

pl absencyjny (Translations) · tr gıyabi (Translations)