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Abessive case
Noun
Definitions
1.
Noun
A grammatical case used to express the lack or absence of something. It has the meaning of the English preposition without or the affix -less.
"Languages that use the abessive case include Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, Mongolian, and Inari Sámi."
Synonyms
abessive
caselessness
caritive case
privative adjective
articlelessness
prefixlessness
absenty
grammarlessness
absence
loose ablative
absentative
absency
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