Truancy

ahd-5
  • noun. The absence of a child from school without permission.
  • noun. The neglect of work or duty
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Truant conduct; the habit or practice of playing truant.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties – refers especially to school absentees.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. failure to attend (especially school)
    • Word Usage
    "In similar fashion, the book-love of the minor Romantics (a kind of mimic or miniaturized bibliomania) allowed for a certain truancy to the high Romantic notions of authorship and the literary imagination that those same essayists were devoted to promulgating."
    cross-reference
    absenteeism  agent of truancy  play hooky  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    nonattendance  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    fluency  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    16-year-old  couples'  cowardliness  disorderliness  disorganisation  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    AWOL  French leave  abscondence  absence  absence without leave  
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