Disappearance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disappearance \Dis`ap*pear"ance\, n.
     The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal
     from sight; vanishing. --Addison.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  disappearance
       n 1: the act of leaving secretly or without explanation [syn: {disappearing}]
            [ant: {appearance}]
       2: the event of passing out of sight [ant: {appearance}]
       3: gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: {fade}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "disappearance":
     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