The phrase "a real absence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a genuine lack or void of something, often in a context where the absence is significant or impactful.
Example: "The empty chair at the dinner table was a real absence, reminding us of the loved one we lost."
Alternatives: "a true absence" or "a genuine absence".
"There's been a real absence of social dialogue," she said.
There's been a real absence of taps this year, and I've got what look like post-apocalyptic hands.
"There was just a real absence of the perspective that this is a 30-year-old man talking about 15-year-old boy," Dr. Goodkind said.
There's a real absence of trust here in Washington, because people spend all their time trying to make political hate today rather than thinking about the long-term needs of the country.
"There's room for creative approaches to how you would turn this from a situation that's very hostile, where people do not trust each other, where their guns and missiles and nukes are aimed at each other, and turn that into a real absence of conflict, where parties are not worried about the other's hostile intentions," Mr. Delury said.
"Universities are first and foremost supposed to stand up for the truth," said Antony Dugdale, a doctoral student in philosophy and one of the three authors, "and yet there's been a real absence of any real discussion or real scholarship on the history of universities themselves, or their role, with regard to slavery".
We evaluated the effect of using a) real absences b) pseudo-absences selected randomly from the background and c) two-step approaches: pseudo-absences selected from low suitability areas predicted by either Ecological Niche Factor Analysis: (ENFA) or BIOCLIM.
In addition to obvious emotional benefits of having dads around more, it turns out that a perceived or real absence of fathers results in a higher likelihood of a boy being a bully.
A perceived — or real — absence of fairness can cripple team culture.
A quantitative change is self-explanatory, while a qualitative change here refers to a real biological absence or presence of a protein between the two groups of mice.
The real absence we feel is the pub.
