(grammar) Not instantly dependent on the other elements of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other aspects of a textual content, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any one term in it, like "it currently being about" in "it remaining about, she remaining". [1st attested https://tagesschaufy.de/absolutes-spezialwissen-die-bedeutung-und-anwendung-in-der-berufswelt/