Meaning

1 senses
  1. The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void.

Origin

absent + referent

absent + referent

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Forms

plural: absent referents
Singularabsent referent
Pluralabsent referents

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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