absence vs enough

absence

noun
  • A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship 

  • The period of someone being away. 

  • Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy. 

  • Lack; deficiency; nonexistence. 

  • Lack of contact between blades. 

  • Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency. 

  • Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind). 

enough

noun
  • An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently. 

pron
  • A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc. 

intj
  • Stop! Don't do that any more! 

det
  • Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate. 

adv
  • Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc. 

  • Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very. 

  • Sufficiently. 

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