Associations to the word «Disappearance»

Wiktionary

DISAPPEARANCE, noun. The action of disappearing or vanishing.

Dictionary definition

DISAPPEARANCE, noun. The act of leaving secretly or without explanation.
DISAPPEARANCE, noun. The event of passing out of sight.
DISAPPEARANCE, noun. Gradually ceasing to be visible.
DISAPPEARANCE, noun. Ceasing to exist; "he regretted the disappearance of Greek from school curricula"; "what was responsible for the disappearance of the rainforest?"; "the disappearance of resistance at very low temperatures".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne