NONATTENDANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonattendance mean? 

• NONATTENDANCE (noun)
  The noun NONATTENDANCE has 1 sense:

1. the failure to attend

  Familiarity information: NONATTENDANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONATTENDANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The failure to attend

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("nonattendance" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonattendance"):

nonappearance (failure to appear (especially as at court))

absence (failure to be present)

hooky; truancy (failure to attend (especially school))

Antonym:

attendance (the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.))