Synonyms of vanishing

vanishing 1 of 2

noun

as in melting

Related Words

• melting
• passing
• evaporation
• fading
• dissipation
• disappearance
• departing
• dissolution
• retirement
• departure
• leaving
• withdrawal
• fadeaway
• parting
• exiting
• quitting
• decamping
• going
• exit
• decampment
• egress
• farewell
• retreat
• exodus
• emigration
• leave-taking
• evacuation
• clearing out

Dissimilar Words

• coming
• appearance
• arrival
• advent
• approach
• entrance
• beginning
• start
• incoming
• birth
• morning
• onset
• dawn
• genesis
• commencement
• ingress
• debut
• inception
• dawning

vanishing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of vanish

as in disappearing

to cease to be visible

the house vanished into the fog as we drove away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disappearing
• fading
• melting
• flying
• evaporating
• fleeing
• dissolving
• dissipating
• sinking
• blurring
• dematerializing
• evanescing
• dropping out of sight
• dispersing
• dying (away or down or out)
• clearing
• drying up
• dimming
• blanking (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appearing
• emerging
• arriving
• issuing
• looming
• materializing
• coming out
• showing up
• breaking out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of vanishing

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

That question, once unimaginable, has become urgent as climate change shrinks the country’s glaciers to the vanishing point. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 July 2026

Upon driving home from work on the afternoon of Denise's vanishing, her husband Nathan Lee found their children, 2-year-old Noah and 6-month-old Adam, alone in the same crib. — Mason Leath, ABC News, 19 June 2026

Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026

There were those e-books, the vanishing of book review sections and book reviews from newspapers, struggles of independent bookstores in the face of Amazon and, most recently, the invasion of AI, with its Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini with their seductive and threatening ways. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026

That’s followed by periods of contemplation, energized wakefulness, and, purportedly, a vanishing of withdrawal symptoms. — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026

Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026

Verb

The taboos against assassination, targeting civilians, and embarking on wars of territorial conquest are vanishing. — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

For a family member, an obit represents an imprimatur, validation by association, a keepsake that maintains their heritage and, perhaps for a generation, prevents their own legacy from vanishing like a walnut in the batter of eternity. — Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026

The proof relied on certain sequences vanishing to zero and referenced the group’s 2009 paper. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026

One week after Connecticut reserved $500 million from last year’s surplus to potentially replace vanishing federal dollars for human services, surging revenues already have replenished much of the state’s coffers. — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

The idea was to memorialize a vanishing Eden and the end of his five years of vagabonding, working on rivers, paying no rent. — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

But then the recovery hit the buffers in Halifax, that hard-won momentum vanishing in a momentary loss of control through a routine maneuver and subsequent crash during the warm-up session. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Reading – not just any kind of reading, but reading long, complex, challenging books – is quickly vanishing from the American scene. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. — ABC News, 22 July 2026