Difference between Absent and Departed

ABSENT vs DEPARTED: NOUN

To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
To withhold from being present.
To keep (oneself) away.

Stay away or leave
Lost in thought
Showing preoccupation
Absent-minded (which see).
Not existing; wanting; not forming a part or attribute of: as, among them refinement is absent; revenge is entirely absent from his mind.
Not in a certain place at a given time; not in consciousness or thought at a certain time; away: opposed to present.
To make absent; take or keep away: now used only reflexively, but formerly sometimes otherwise, as by Milton: as, to absent one's self from home; he absented himself from the meeting.

Abstracted, Wanting, Away, Scatty, Remove, Gone, Absentminded, Inattentive, Awol, Truant, Departed, Nonexistent, Lacking, Missing, Devoid

Bypast, Deceased person, At rest, Dead soul, At peace, Decedent, Past, Asleep, Foregone, Away, Bygone, Dead, Deceased, Gone, Absent

Abstracted, Wanting, Away, Scatty, Remove, Gone, Absentminded, Inattentive, Awol, Truant, Departed, Nonexistent, Lacking, Missing, Devoid

Leaving, Departure, Returned, Bypast, At peace, Decedent, Past, Asleep, Foregone, Away, Bygone, Dead, Deceased, Gone, Absent

Spanish Club meetings when the President is absent.
Carrier shall not be liable absent actual negligence.
What molecule was noticeably absent from early earth?
The bolsters common to hotel rooms were absent.
Separate juvenile facilities countrywide are still virtually absent.
Republicans and one Democrat absent or not voting.
In general, the same rules and procedures apply to combined absent voter counting boards that apply to other absent voter counting boards.
It is usually defined by the length of time an individual has been absent from work or is likely to be absent from work.
It simply states absent posterior tibial pulse or absent dorsalis pedis pulse.
Body roundish, skull bones extremely thin, subocular shelf absent; supramaxilla reduced or absent; uniquely modified extrascapular bone.

Germany when Elvis departed for the United States.
Time that air transport helicopter departed the scene.
Caribbean cruise that departed Tampa, Florida, on Sunday.
John Tillman LANE departed this life last Sunday.
He departed this life at Highland Home Ala.
Departed on time and arrived ahead of schedule.
Seltzer water where all the bubbles have departed.
HMS Bounty departed Tahiti for England Bounty departed Tahiti for England Bountywith a cargo of breadfruit trees.
And of course human love and sympathy for men and insight into them, departed from him, and with them his art departed.
District Apostles can serve Holy Communion to the departed, as well as baptise and seal the departed.