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abessive

[a-bes-iv]Grammar
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adjective
  1. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate absence or lack.
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noun
  1. the abessive case.
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Origin of abessive

1890–94; < Latin abess(e) to be distant + -ive
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