inattendance

inattendance

English

Etymology

in- +‎ attendance

Noun

inattendance (uncountable)

1. Lack or neglect of attendance.
   • 1972, Gene Arnold Rister, The Odyssean Backgrounds of Ulysses: Joyce's Sources and His Development of the Homeric Motif, Volume 2, p. 310:

     Mary Dedalus, Stephen's mother, died 26 June 1903; Bloom belatedly apologizes for his inattendance to her burial due to the "vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag)..."

   • 2006, Tracy Letts, Man from Nebraska: A Play, p. 59:

     I offered that this certainly shed some light on his noticeable absence from the building and his inattendance to our affairs, particularly the faint yet menacing odor of natural gas emanating from the stub of rusting pipe...