absence vs miscue

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  • A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship 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

miscue

noun
  • The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. 

  • In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. 

  • A miss of the object one intended to hit. 

verb
  • to mishit, strike incorrectly. 

  • To give an incorrect cue. 

How often have the words absence and miscue occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )