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

But that sense of security is now one play away from vanishing. — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

The research makes a compelling case that in the age of AI, the once-bright line between data and executable code is vanishing. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

September's a pretty big one for vanishing content, with several notable series like Spartacus and Orphan Black going away, along with the Rocky movie franchise and more. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026

And then there was the rollout—or, more accurately, the vanishing act. — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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