DISAPPEARANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disappearance mean? 

• DISAPPEARANCE (noun)
  The noun DISAPPEARANCE has 4 senses:

1. the act of leaving secretly or without explanation

2. the event of passing out of sight

3. gradually ceasing to be visible

4. ceasing to exist

  Familiarity information: DISAPPEARANCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAPPEARANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of leaving secretly or without explanation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disappearance; disappearing

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:

The event of passing out of sight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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 3

Meaning:

Gradually ceasing to be visible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disappearance; fade

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 4

Meaning:

Ceasing to exist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the disappearance of resistance at very low temperatures

Hypernyms ("disappearance" is a kind of...):

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

 Context examples 

Now, sir, I must ask you more particularly what this document is, and why its disappearance should have such momentous consequences?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, taken with the disappearance of the man’s companions, I should say that they were in some way concerned in the murder and had fled from justice.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I presume that you have looked into this matter of the murder of John Straker and the disappearance of Silver Blaze?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some examples of endpoints are survival, improvements in quality of life, relief of symptoms, and disappearance of the tumor.

(End Point, NCI Dictionary)

Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed, and marked upon the cover as “not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr. Henry Jekyll.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

New DNA analysis reveals that, before their mysterious disappearance, the Norse colonies of Greenland had a “near monopoly” on Europe’s walrus ivory supply.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

The disappearance of all signs of cancer in response to treatment.

(Complete remission, NCI Dictionary)

The disappearance of all signs of cancer in response to treatment accompanied by incomplete bone marrow recovery, as evidenced by persistent anemia, thrombocytopenia or neutropenia.

(Complete Response with Incomplete Bone Marrow Recovery, NCI Thesaurus)

Activation of lymphocytes results in the disappearance of sCTLA-4 followed by its gradual reappearance, whereas CTLA-4 increases after activation.

(Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)

Following the disappearance of white sharks in 2017, sevengill began to show up for the first time and have been increasing in number ever since.

(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)