DIS APPEARANCE Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

disappearance

noun

Definition of disappearance

as in loss

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Recent Examples of disappearance At the time of her disappearance, the teen was about five feet tall and weighed approximately 100 pounds. — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is still a total mystery, but a person of interest is now speaking out about the case. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 14 Aug. 2026 Stocks plays a young teen named Maz, an amateur astronomer still grieving the disappearance of her scientist father (Rheon). — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026 Max and Chloe then work together to explore the town of Arcadia Bay and solve the disappearance of Chloe’s friend, Rachel Amber (Esther McGregor). — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026 Then, in January 2023, a Miami Herald article popped up focused on police asking for tips in Hanin’s disappearance, at that point a cold case. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026 Bret complains about how quickly the school forgets Matt Kellner following his disappearance, but The Shards appears equally unmoved by him. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026 Anyone with information about Cheryl’s disappearance should call the Scott County Sheriff’s Office at 573-545-3525. — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026 At its center is the disappearance of a fourteen-year-old boy, a child born after the fighting had already ended. — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappearance

Noun

Finding the balance between preserving clubhouse culture and throwing future pieces into the fire remains complicated, even as the team dropped to 60-65 following Saturday’s 5-4 walk-off loss to the New York Mets.

— Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Some of this can be attributed to a loss of trust in institutions, especially those tied to public health, thanks in part to the Covid-19 pandemic.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of loss

Noun

The 21-year-old midfielder has loan interest from EFL clubs, but his departure is contingent on potential incomings.

— Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
The luxury pods — complete with lie-flat beds and sliding privacy doors — could be entirely off-limits when departure day rolls around, sitting completely empty at 35,000 feet.

— Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of departure

Noun

Sunday is expected to be the busiest day at O'Hare Airport, with more than 300,000 passengers arriving or departing.

— Lauren Victory, CBS News, 1 July 2026
While Schmid fills the role of a high-end backup, Florida still needs to acquire a starting-caliber goaltender prior to the start of the season with both Sergei Bobrovsky and Daniil Tarasov departing.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

Definition of departing

Noun

His arm talent and ability to protect the football could give FIU a more efficient passing attack.

— Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026
The three spacecraft will beam lasers at each other, looking for deviations in the travel time of those laser beams as evidence for the passing of a long-wavelength gravitational wave.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of passing

Noun

Published in Nature, the study resolves the discrepancy between experiments and theoretical simulations of the melting temperature of diamond and show that the diamond structure persists up to 1 TPa.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
To date, per the CPSC, the company has received at least 19 reports of the products smoking, sparking, burning, melting, overheating or catching fire.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of melting

Noun

Bearing witness to that vanishing is a rare and fleeting privilege.

— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
The vanishing of any craft is a tragedy to all who prefer the existence of a thing to its opposite, but restorative art represents more than just a niche domain of aesthetic achievement or a macabre postmortem racket.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

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