The phrase "absence of thoughts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state where one is not thinking or has no active thoughts, often in contexts related to meditation or mental clarity.
Example: "During meditation, I experienced a profound absence of thoughts, allowing me to feel a deep sense of peace."
Alternatives: "lack of thoughts" or "void of thoughts".
"There was an absence of thought [about creative writing] which seems daft in retrospect".
Seeing the absence of thought-out policy towards China, the chancellor jumped in with both boots.
"I liked that he had the dispassion of an analytical academic in a place notable for its absence of thought.
The idea behind "The Hole We're In" is that an absence of thought is what leads people to behave so stupidly, so zombielike.
That's the mark of the art of movies; "Me and Earl" suggests, rather, the absence of thought on the subject of what's in and what's out.
I back-roll into the water, working on an absence of thought, a total lack of anticipation, a readiness to focus on whatever comes my way, rather than straining to seek out something that simply isn't there.
"I didn't have time to think," he has said, over and over again — only to pull the trigger, and pull it three more times again — as if the absence of thought attached to that act, the power of the gun, was an absolution.
But within the scenario that she constructs, involving a former slave owner and a group of women accustomed to being served by slaves, the greater implausibility is not the absence of a slave in the house but the absence of thought or talk, on the part of the women who are there, about the politics and the social and domestic changes that the war has imposed.
This clinical description, in the absence of thought disorder, renders the diagnosis of psychotic disorder most unlikely.
This leaves the Deflationary conception of forbearance, according to which a forbearance is the opposite of an action, namely an episode of rest or absence of thought.
