All nonattendance synonyms

noun nonattendance

• absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
• truancy — the act or state of being truant.
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• absenteeism — Absenteeism is the fact or habit of frequently being away from work or school, usually without a good reason.
• nonappearance — failure to appear, as in a court.
• wagging — to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
• awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• hooky — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
• vacancy — the state of being vacant; emptiness.
• french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
• truantry — truancy.