The absolute permittivity of a medium is its relative
permittivity multiplied by the vacuum permittivity.
The absolute permittivity is a proportionality constant between
the electric and displacement field with units of Farad/meters (in
SI units). This number is usually very small (e.g. for air: 0.000
000 000 008 85 F/m).
The relative permittivity is a unit-less number scaled upward to
present nicer numbers (e.g. for air: 1.0005).
To get the absolute permittivity from the relative permittivity
one should multiply with the vacuum permittivity: 8.85418781...
E-12 F/m.