The term, from the Latin absolutus, “loosed” or “complete”, came into philosophy chiefly through German Idealism, above all Schelling and Hegel, and later the British Idealists. It names what is not relative to anything else. Translators use it for Brahman, the Dao, the dharmakāya and Ein Sof, though each tradition understands its ultimate differently.
The Absolute
The unconditioned, ultimate reality on which all else depends, and which depends on nothing.
Also: absolute reality