Absence
Absence noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.
Usage example: the absence of volunteers to be troop leaders is putting the scouting program in real jeopardy
Essential and absence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Essential" instead a noun "Absence".
Nearby Word: absent
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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An aversion of sorts, as it reminds viewers that, whether or not a working spleen is essential to survival, an injured spleen is liable to kill you in the absence of emergency surgery.
Source: Useless Spleen -
In The Science of Discworld, the wizards are observing life evolving on the Roundworld, in spite of both absence of essential elements like Narrativium and Deitygen, and of the constant disasters like comet strikes it faces.
Source: It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY - Except that Connor was an essential element to a Story Arc that lasted three seasons, involving Darla, Sahjahn, Holtz, Wesley, Lilah, and ultimately Jasmine, and the idea that his absence didn't affect any of this is absurd.
Source: In Spite of a Nail
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Essential and Absence. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/absence/essential
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