disappearance

plural disappearances

1. countableuncountableThe action of disappearing or vanishing.

   Wireless phone technology led to the disappearance of once-common coiled cords for telephone handsets.

   1 more example

   As hundreds of volunteers and police scoured parks and waterways in an area of New Orleans Tuesday, there were many questions but few answers about the disappearance 11 days ago of a 26-year-old teacher.

   2013 March 12, Vivian Kuo, “No answers in disappearance of New Orleans teacher”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2018

2. countableuncountablePassing out of sight.

   From the shore, they watched the disappearance of the ships' masts into the haze.

3. countableuncountableLeaving secretly of without explanation

   The prosecuting attorney was concerned about the potential disappearance of witnesses.

4. countableuncountableCessation of existence.

   A single undoubted cure of a demonstrated cancer or sarcoma by this treatment would be enough to say definitely that the treatment exerts some specifically curative influence, for the spontaneous disappearance of undoubtedly malignant growths of this character is almost unknown.

   1898, William B. Coley, “The Treatment of Inoperable Sarcoma with the Mixed Toxins of Erysipelas and Bacillus Prodigiosus”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 31, American Medical Association, page 464