"absent referent" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "absent + referent",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "absent referents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "absent referent (plural absent referents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Semantics",
          "orig": "en:Semantics",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void."
      ],
      "id": "en-absent_referent-en-noun-eF5xnrWX",
      "links": [
        [
          "semantics",
          "semantics"
        ],
        [
          "referent",
          "referent"
        ],
        [
          "nothing",
          "nothing"
        ],
        [
          "null",
          "null"
        ],
        [
          "vacuum",
          "vacuum"
        ],
        [
          "void",
          "void"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(semantics) The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "semantics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "absent referent"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "absent + referent",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "absent referents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "absent referent (plural absent referents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Semantics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "semantics",
          "semantics"
        ],
        [
          "referent",
          "referent"
        ],
        [
          "nothing",
          "nothing"
        ],
        [
          "null",
          "null"
        ],
        [
          "vacuum",
          "vacuum"
        ],
        [
          "void",
          "void"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(semantics) The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "semantics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "absent referent"
}