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means The habitual practice of staying away from work or school without good reason.

from Built from 'absentee' (one who is absent) plus the suffix '-ism,' which turns a behavior into a pattern or doctrine. 'Absentee' traces back to Latin 'absens/absentem,' the present participle of 'abesse' — 'to be away' — from 'ab-' (away) and 'esse' (to be). The word gained its teeth in 18th-century Ireland and Britain, originally describing landlords who owned estates but lived elsewhere, collecting rents while never setting foot on the land — so the earliest 'absenteeism' was a crime of landlords before it ever became a crime of employees.