Difference between Absent and Truant

ABSENT vs TRUANT: NOUN

To stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave.
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
A vagabond; a vagrant; an idler.
One who shirks work or duty.
One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
Someone who shirks duty
One who is absent from school without permission

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.

Showing preoccupation
Stay away or leave
Absent-minded (which see).
Lost in thought
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.

To idle away time or shirk duty; play truant.
Idle; loitering; given to shirking duty or business, or attendance at some appointed time or place: especially noting children who absent themselves from school without leave.
Characteristic of a truant; idle; loitering; wandering.
To waste or idle away.

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

Dropout, Tardiness, School, Absenteeism, Hooky, Misbehavior, Juvenile delinquent, Truancy, Idle, Chronically, Hooky player, No show, Nonattender, Awol, Absent

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

Drunkard, Pickpocket, Bully, Miscreant, Latchkey, Dropout, Tardiness, School, Misbehavior, Juvenile delinquent, Truancy, Idle, Chronically, Awol, 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.

Students who have habitually unexcused absences shall be considered truant.
This would be reserved for your most severely truant students.
The California Legislature defined a truant in very precise language.
Ernie Truant could hand out under the league constitution.
Conditions under which pupil declared habitual truant; applicability.
Truant youth may be subject to court proceedings.
Parents of truant students in an online school should be reprimanded similarly to the parents of truant students in traditional school districts.
The identification of supportive services to be made available to truant or chronically truant students.
Would a truant call out one of their truant friends to the principal without reason?
Chronic Truant Adjudication, as a chronic truant shall be adjudged a truant minor in need of supervision.