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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky