English Explanatory Dictionary

absent referent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void.

Word forms

absent referent absent referents

Etymology

absent + referent

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