disappearance
Sudden absence unfolds
Disappearance is the act of vanishing or ceasing to be visible or present.
A person's disappearance may be voluntary or mysterious: Police are investigating her disappearance.
Things undergo disappearance when they're removed or fade away: the disappearance of small farms, the gradual disappearance of cash transactions.
The word often carries undertones of concern or loss.
Cease to be visible
- fadeLose intensity gradually
- evaporateTransition to gaseous state
- dissolveDisperse into liquid
- dematerializeCease to exist physically
evanesce · dissipate · disintegrate · sublimate · melt · disperse · dwindle · recede
One fleeing authorities
- runawayOne who flees
- fleeDepart swiftly from threat
- evadeEscape by cunning
- eludeSkillfully avoid capture
abscond · defect · bolt · vanish · hideout · asylum · refuge · underground
Not yet figured out
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- clueSolving aid
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
forensics · witness · trace · lead · case · whereabouts · sighting · tip
Intense sorrow from loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- absenceState of not being
- bereavementState following loss
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
closure · vigil · heartache · tragedy · remembrance · anniversary · devastation · anguish
Finest taxonomic rank
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
- extinctNo longer existing
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
- biodiversityRange of life forms
conservation · die-off · decline · population · wildlife · ecosystem · lost · forgotten
Kept out of sight
- camouflageConcealment through visual blending
- cloakSleeveless outer wrap
- veilFabric that obscures
- shroudBurial cloth or covering
obscure · mask · cover · stealth · covert · unseen · undetectable · invisibility
vanish
Cease to be visible
dematerialize · evanesce · dissipate · disintegrate · sublimate · melt · disperse · dwindle · recede · wane
fugitive
One fleeing authorities
elude · abscond · defect · bolt · vanish · hideout · asylum · refuge · underground · clandestine
unsolved
Not yet figured out
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- clueSolving aid
detective · forensics · witness · trace · lead · case · whereabouts · sighting · tip · manhunt
absence
State of not being
hole · blank · vacancy · lacuna · space · unfilled · hollow · void · bare · bereft
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- absenceState of not being
- bereavementState following loss
memorial · closure · vigil · heartache · tragedy · remembrance · anniversary · devastation · anguish · uncertainty
species
Finest taxonomic rank
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
- extinctNo longer existing
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
biodiversity · conservation · die-off · decline · population · wildlife · ecosystem · lost · forgotten · vanished
hidden
Kept out of sight
- camouflageConcealment through visual blending
- cloakSleeveless outer wrap
- veilFabric that obscures
shroud · obscure · mask · cover · stealth · covert · unseen · undetectable · invisibility · secrecy
- mysteriesmystery, enigma, enigmas, puzzle, riddle
- vanishingvanish, vanishing, fading, dissolving, evaporate
- missing personsmissing person, missing children, missing child, vanished, vanishing
- presumed deathpresumed dead, presumption of death, missing person, death certificate, waiting period
- true crimetrue crime, cold case, crime docs, unsolved mystery, murder mystery
- absenceabsent, away, gone, missing, lack
disappearanceappearance
Outward visible form
manifestation · materialization · emergence · revelation · surfacing
disappearancearrival
Act of reaching destination
appearance · advent · coming · entrance · reappearance
- mysterious disappearancesUnexplained cases of people gone
- forced disappearancesState abduction with denial