thin air
Where things disappear
Thin air refers to atmosphere at high altitude, where oxygen is scarce: The climbers struggled to breathe in the thin air.
More commonly, thin air appears in phrases about sudden appearance or disappearance—out of thin air, into thin air, from thin air.
Something that materializes out of thin air seems to come from nowhere: The solution appeared out of thin air.
Something that vanishes into thin air disappears completely and mysteriously.
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- vanishCease to be visible
- peakUtmost height attained
- intangibleNot physically present
- evanesceDisappear by degrees
void · summit · nullity · rarefied · mountain peak · dematerialize · absence · conjure · magic trick · ephemeral · evaporate · disappear · fade away · out of nowhere · invisible · nihility · scarcity · dissipate
- altitude physiologyacclimatization, altitude sickness, hypoxia, mountain sickness, acute mountain sickness
- breathingbreathing, inhalation, breath, exhalation, breathe
- disappearingvanish, fade, disappear, vanishing, evaporate
- High Altitudealtitude sickness, hypoxia, oxygen deprivation, acclimatization, death zone
- mountain lifeyodeling, alpine skiing, skiing, hiking, snowboarding
- mountain termsAlps, Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, peaks
thin airsolid ground
Stable surface beneath
something · substance · physical presence · flesh and blood · hard evidence
air, thin, airy, airing, aerial, aired, airless, thinned, thinning