truancy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tru=an=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

truancy, n. 

 The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

truancy

AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, clock-watching, cut, day off, default, departure, disappearance, dodging, ducking, escape, excused absence, fleeing, furlough, goofing off, holiday, hooky, leave, leave of absence, leaving, malingering, nonappearance, nonattendance, running away, sabbatical leave, shirking, sick leave, skulking, slacking, soldiering, tax dodging, tax evasion, truantism, unexcused absence, vacation, welshing