Absence can be associated with a void or a disappearance.
If we want to know the etymological origin of the term absence , we would have to go to Latin, symbolically speaking. And it comes from the Latin word absentia , which in turn derives from absens , which can be translated as "that is out of place."
Absence is the action and effect of being absent or being absent . The verb absent , for its part, refers to making someone move away from a place, making something disappear or separating from a place.
For example: "The team felt the absence of their captain" , "I don't know what I'm going to do in your absence" , "If I add another absence, I'll be free from school" , "We have to think about how to hide the absence of Gómez during his vacation » .
Notion of absence
Absence, therefore, can be the time in which someone is absent: "After two months of absence, the German tennis player returns to the circuit," "I wanted to tell you that my absence in recent weeks was due to a health problem." of my son" , "It was eight months of absence for personal reasons, but I am ready to return to work."
The lack or deprivation of something can also be called absence: "The absence of precipitation is a big problem for the entire agricultural region of the country" , "I don't understand how you can live with the absence of electricity in the house" , "The country "It is suffering from the absence of foreign investments."
The physical absence of a person can cause sadness or nostalgia .
The concept in medicine and psychology
For medicine , absence is a sudden, but temporary, suppression of consciousness .
However, we cannot forget about what are known as typical absences . These are very brief episodes of seizures that occur as a result of the brain carrying out completely abnormal electrical activity. These usually occur in children between 6 and 12 years old and have symptoms ranging from alterations in mental clarity to tremors or clumsiness in the hands to hyperventilation.
Psychology , for its part, considers absence as the distraction of the mood with respect to the situation in which an individual finds himself: "After the blow I was absent for a few minutes, but I'm fine now," "What do you mean?" owes your absence? "You're not paying attention to what I'm saying."
The term absence in music
In addition to all of the above, we would have to say that in the field of music there are various songs that use the word in question as their title. That would be the case of "This absence" by David Bisbal , which tells of the suffering one has for a love that is gone, or "Ausencia" by Rosa López .
That last composition is an adaptation of the famous "Albinoni Adagio" , a work created in 1945 by the Italian Remo Giazotto . It seems that he created it taking as a source of inspiration some documents that were found among the ruins of the Dresden Library when it was bombed during World War II . Those were the scores of a trio sonata that had been created by the Venetian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni , who stood out within the field of opera for his instrumental music.