fading

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fade.

   fading light; fading memory; fading reputation

   1 more example

   With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.

   2013 October 19, Banyan, “The meaning of Sachin”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858

plural fadings

1. The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.

   […] the rude earth of the wall had no painted lustre to shed off all fadings and tarnish […]

   1854, Herman Melville, Israel Potter

2. obsoleteAn Irish dance.

   Fading is a fine jig.

   1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v

3. obsoleteThe burden of a song.

   He has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings

   c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]