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

The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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

Verb

If live sports are the only thing preventing the bundle from vanishing outright, a stable virtual MVPD market has gone a long way toward moderating the overall losses in the pay-TV space. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2026

The rapidly approaching future and vanishing past are all around her, which Horgan embodies beautifully in a brief but wrenching scene when Ruari first leaves for school. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2026

In a union hall near Youngstown, retirees describe decades of vanishing factory jobs as Sherrod Brown bets economic anger, war in Iran fallout and AI data centers can fuel his Senate comeback. — Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

But these communal destinations are slowly vanishing from American life. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026

Amid the search for Natalie, an 18-year-old man was arrested in connection with her vanishing in March 2004 but he was later released without charges. — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026

The vanishing New York chronicled in the blogs of the mid-aughts has mostly vanished, NYU has colonized large swaths of downtown, and a populace struggling to afford the crushing price of housing has arisen in its wake. — David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026

Before Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth took the reins in this long-running franchise to do battle over Earth’s vanishing resources, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy navigated those same roads in Furiosa’s War Rig. — Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026

For two years, some of the loudest voices on AI have spoken on white-collar layoffs, vanishing entry-level jobs, and a generation of graduates shut out. — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2026