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Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Quality of being obese; obesity.

State or quality of being obtuse.

Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. Milton.

Omnipresence. [Obs.]

Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitous; as, the omnipresent Jehovah. Prior.

Implying universal presence. [R.] South.

Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus.

A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place; an outguard.

The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.

A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

The quality or state of being perverse. "Virtue hath some perverseness." Donne.

Presence in more places than one. [R.] Johnson.

A previous consent.

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.