disappearance

Noun

Meaning

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disappearing removal departure withdrawal extinction dissolution evaporation dispersal fade dissipation vanishing vanishing act Abel awol bolt
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Antonyms

appearance phantom revenant wraith inlet specter
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Hypernyms

going ending conclusion departure occurrence happening

Hyponyms

evanescence immersion vanishing ingress fadeout receding

Phrases with the word

disappearance of individuality outright disappearance reason of sock disappearance

Examples

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. Stanley Milgram

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. Stéphane Mallarmé

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene. Allen Ginsberg

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes. Douglas Coupland

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines. Elizabeth Hardwick

Close letter words and terms

disappear into thin air disappear very slowly disappearable disappearance of individuality disappeared disappeared from the face of the earth