The phrase "absence of a system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is no established system in place, often in contexts related to organization, processes, or methodologies.
Example: "The absence of a system in the workflow led to confusion and inefficiencies among the team."
Alternatives: "lack of a system" or "nonexistence of a system".
The greatest weakness of the electronic kiosks, however, is the absence of a system for recording individual customers' preferences.
(Bearman's advice was that, in the absence of a system of randomly selecting interviewees, one should choose the person whom one feels least inclined to interview).
There are other reasons for the devolution of Chinese poetry, Bei Dao said, such as the absence of a system of construction.
Or maybe it is that, owing to theatrical Tory opposition to identity cards, and the absence of a system of residence registers as exists in much of Europe, we are a paradise for illegality.
It is not surprising, then, that researchers find wide variation in teaching skills across classrooms; in the absence of a system devoted to developing consistent expertise, we have teachers essentially winging it as they go along, with predictably uneven results.
Given the depth of baseball's grip on the American psyche, and the breadth of fans' collections, the absence of a system for saving each team's important documents and artifacts is surprising.
Because, in the absence of a systems view of improvement, performance goals can be met only at the expense of missing others, in this case financial ones.
In the absence of a welfare system, the arrangement was designed to give blind people a protected way of earning a living.
In the absence of such a system, the agreed burden sharing between the donors to the International Development Association of the World Bank could be used [ 53].
In the absence of such a system, it would be difficult to interpret sepsis outcome studies [ 8].
The root of the revealed problems in our study might be the absence of an effective referral system in Taiwan, in other words, the absence of a coordinated system of health care delivery.
