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DISAPPEARANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of leaving secretly or without explanation
Synonyms:
disappearance; disappearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("disappearance" is a kind of...):
departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disappearance"):
vanishing (a sudden disappearance from sight)
Antonym:
appearance (the act of appearing in public view)
Derivation:
disappear (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Gradually ceasing to be visible
Synonyms:
disappearance; fade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("disappearance" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Derivation:
disappear (cease to exist)
disappear (become invisible or unnoticeable)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The event of passing out of sight
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("disappearance" is a kind of...):
happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disappearance"):
immersion; ingress ((astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse)
evanescence (the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight)
vanishing (a sudden or mysterious disappearance)
fadeout; receding (a slow or gradual disappearance)
Antonym:
appearance (the event of coming into sight)
Derivation:
disappear (become invisible or unnoticeable)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Ceasing to exist
Example:
the disappearance of resistance at very low temperatures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("disappearance" is a kind of...):
happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)
Context examples:
This could be another possible explanation for the sudden appearance and disappearance of ULX-4.
(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The presence of walruses in Iceland in the past and their apparent disappearance as early as the Settlement and Commonwealth periods (A.D. 870–1262) have long puzzled biologists.
(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)
The area has lava flows that post-date the disappearance of the sea.
(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)
He remembered afterwards that his packing had preceded the master's disappearance; but at the time he suspected nothing.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Those are all the notices which appeared before the disappearance of the bride.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On our way upstairs, I called her attention to the sudden disappearance of Mrs. Crupp's pitfalls, and also to the prints of recent footsteps.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
With the disappearance of each mouthful an expression of deep regret came into his eyes.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The gypsies, taking us as in some way the cause of the extraordinary disappearance of the dead man, turned, without a word, and rode away as if for their lives.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was gone before anything had been said to prepare him for the change he must find there; and a pause of alarm followed his disappearance.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
With some there was great joy at the sight of Frank Churchill; others took it very composedly; but there was a very general distress and disturbance on Miss Fairfax's disappearance being explained.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
