nonattendance

Failure to appear

Nonattendance is the fact or state of not being present where expected—at school, work, court, or an event: The student's repeated nonattendance led to academic probation.

The word is formal and appears most often in institutional or legal contexts, where attendance is required or recorded.

absence

no-show

One who fails to appear

missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
awayNot in this location
absentNot in attendance

unavailable · gone · out · leave · vacation · sabbatical · holiday · furlough · excused · unexcused

truancy

hooky

Unauthorized school absence

skippingRhythmic hopping locomotion
AWOLAbsent without permission
bunkingSleeping somewhere temporarily

ditching · cutting · truant · delinquent · shirking · malingering · dodging · evading · wagging · jigging

neglect

negligence

Failure to exercise care

derelictionAbandonment of duty
oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
omissionFailure to include

disregard · inattention · default · noncompliance · breach · lapse · remissness · irresponsibility · nonparticipation · nonobservance

Categories

absenceabsent, away, gone, missing, lack
attendancepresent, absent, here, excused, unexcused
nonparticipationnonparticipation, noninvolvement, noninterference, nonintervention, abstention
protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in

Opposites

physical presence

nonattendanceattendance

Record of who's present

presence · showing up · being there · appearance · turning up

participation and engagement

nonattendanceparticipation

Act of taking part

involvement · engagement · companionship · taking part · joining in

Family

attend, attention, attentive, attendant, attended, attendance, attending, unattended, attendee

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G