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not present in a situation or place, when it is obvious that you should be there When it came to cleaning up afterward, Anne was conspicuous by her absence.
adverb Women were conspicuously absent from the planning committee.
noun [uncountable]See conspicuous in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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