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omniabsent en · ADJ

Etymology

From omni- + absent.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Never present; always absent.
    • The vying of male and female parts in this hag drama, and the dominanceof animus over ego, can be traced in almost every case to a woman's early relation to an omniabsent father, a figure who all but guarantees the woman's being caught in a hag complex in her later years. 1987, Ann & Barry Ulanov, The Witch and the Clown: Two Archetypes of Human Sexuality, →ISBN:
    • No one has ever been conscious of the motion of light as it flows by; in fact, we are more apt to regard light in everyday life as a static phenomenon, either omnipresent or omniabsent. 1944, Charles Anthony Federer, Sky and Telescope, page 79:
    • But if the kids were omnipresent, the politicians were omniabsent, especially those running for office. 1979, Edgar Berman, Hubert: the triumph and tragedy of the Humphrey I knew, →ISBN, page 204: