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Disappearance definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISAPPEARANCE, n. Cessation of appearance; a removal from sight.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of leaving secretly or without explanation [syn: disappearance, disappearing] [ant: appearance]
2: the event of passing out of sight [ant: appearance]
3: gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: fade, disappearance]
4: ceasing to exist; "he regretted the disappearance of Greek from school curricula"; "what was responsible for the disappearance of the rainforest?"; "the disappearance of resistance at very low temperatures"

Merriam Webster's

noun see disappear

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disappearance Dis`ap*pear"ance, n. The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(disappearances) 1. If you refer to someone's disappearance, you are referring to the fact that nobody knows where they have gone. Her disappearance has baffled police... N-VAR: oft with poss 2. If you refer to the disappearance of an object, you are referring to the fact that it has been lost or stolen. Police are investigating the disappearance from council offices of confidential files. = loss N-COUNT: usu sing, usu with poss, oft N from n 3. The disappearance of a type of thing, person, or animal is a process in which it becomes less common and finally no longer exists. ...the virtual disappearance of the red telephone box. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n

Moby Thesaurus

AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, absquatulation, bolt, concealment, cut, day off, decampment, default, departure, desertion, disappearing act, elopement, escape, excused absence, exit, fleeing, flight, fugitation, furlough, hasty retreat, hegira, holiday, hooky, immateriality, imperceptibility, indiscernibility, invisibility, leave, leave of absence, leaving, nonappearance, nonattendance, quick exit, running away, sabbatical leave, scramming, secrecy, sick leave, skedaddle, skedaddling, the invisible, the unseen, truancy, truantism, unexcused absence, unperceivability, unseeableness, unsubstantiality, vacation, viewlessness