(grammar) Not immediately depending on another areas of the sentence; not within a syntactical relation with other parts of a textual content, or qualifying the text as a whole rather then any solitary phrase in it, like "it being around" in "it staying above, she remaining". [initially attested close to https://tagesschaufy.de/absolutes-spezialwissen-die-bedeutung-und-anwendung-in-der-berufswelt/