omniabsent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

omni- +‎ absent

Adjective[edit]

omniabsent (not comparable)

  1. Never present; always absent.
    • 1944, Charles Anthony Federer, Sky and Telescope, page 79:
      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.
    • 1979, Edgar Berman, Hubert: the triumph and tragedy of the Humphrey I knew, →ISBN, page 204:
      But if the kids were omnipresent, the politicians were omniabsent, especially those running for office.
    • 1987, Ann & Barry Ulanov, The Witch and the Clown: Two Archetypes of Human Sexuality, →ISBN:
      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.