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Simple absence   /sˈɪmpəl ˈæbsəns/   Listen
Simple absence

noun
1.
An absence seizure without other complications; followed by 3-per-sec brainwave spikes.  Synonym: pure absence.






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"Simple absence" Quotes from Famous Books



... neighbourhood of the village, it is expected of him that he shall make the crops thrive and neither tread them down himself nor allow wild pigs to do so. The expectation is reasonable, yet the conduct of the ghost does not always answer to it. Occasionally, whether out of sheer perverseness or simple absence of mind, he will sit down in a field; and wherever he does so, he makes a hollow where the fruits will not grow. Indeed any fruit that he even touches with his foot in passing, shrivels up. Where these things have happened, the people ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer



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