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vanishing

vanishing

7 6.0
A sudden disappearance of a person or thing without explanation
  • noun
  • /ˈvænɪʃɪŋ/
translation icon : desaparición
  • Once again, we witness the vanishing of more forms of this paradigm along with the disappearance of disyllabic veer.

And the youth decided to to lash around this concept of vanishing and disappearing.

Examples

  • Tell me about the moment just prior to his vanishing.

  • My husband died a few days after the vanishings

  • The loss of John Smith forever is the vanishing of her last happiness.

    Blog text (13)
  • I was, too, when she called me with the news of Peter's vanishing.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The Wachatis believe they draw their power from these caves, but they now live in fear since the vanishing of their sacred bat.

  • Transition is a moment in this very vanishing, and it is devilishly difficult to picture or ponder.

  • The text beside these visionary expanses emphasized vanishing and danger.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • "Since Marianne's vanishing, Mom had become yet more nervously extravagant in her speech, eyelids and fingers fluttering.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The sudden vanishing of the magician left the audience in awe.

  • The news of her mysterious vanishing spread quickly through the town.

Synonyms

absence
vsvanishing
216 2.1

A lack of someone or something that should be there

refers to a sudden or mysterious act of ceasing to be present
disappearance
vsvanishing
65 3.7

A person or thing not seen where it was before

specifies sudden or mysterious exit from sight rather than general lack of presence
disappearing
vsvanishing
5 4.7

Leaving a place secretly or without explaining why

focuses on sudden or mysterious loss from sight rather than intentional departure
evanescence
vsvanishing
  • Literature
1 9.6

A brief fading from sight or memory

describes sudden or mysterious loss from sight rather than slow fading
vanishment
vsvanishing
1 9.0

A complete disappearance of someone or something so it cannot be seen

highlights suddenness or mystery rather than just complete cessation
nonappearance
vsvanishing
  • Formal
7.5

A failure by a person to come to a place they should, often in court or at a meeting

is used for sudden or mysterious leaving from sight rather than formal nonattendance

Antonyms

408 2.6

A person or thing becoming visible in public, for example on stage

56 4.9

A process where something appears and becomes known or important

Compounds

vanishing point
  • Specialized
1 6.3

A point in a picture where parallel lines seem to meet in the distance

A light cream that makes skin soft and leaves no visible residue

How Sudden

vanishing
7 6.0
disappearance
65 3.7
fading
1 3.0
evaporation
  • Specialized
15 3.2

Surface Forms

vanishing singular
vanishings plural

Morphology

vanishing = vanish (transparent) = vanish + ing

Standard nominalization/gerund formation from the verb 'vanish' meaning the action or process of disappearing, which is directly inferable from the base verb.

Etymology

Vanishing comes from the Latin root vanus meaning 'empty', and the same root appears in words like vain and vanity. So a vanishing is when something suddenly becomes 'empty' of people or sight — it disappears.