Definition of Disappearance

Disappearance

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

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Act, Appearance, Cessation, Disappearing, From, Of, Removal, Sight, The, Vanishing

Disappearance Quotations

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
Mary Baker Eddy

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
Jerzy Kosinski

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett Hardin

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
John T. Flynn

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
Jack Schwartz

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Stephane Mallarme

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Stanley Milgram

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
William Julius Wilson

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Disappearance Translations

disappearance in Dutch is verdwijning
disappearance in German is Verschwunden, Verschwinden
disappearance in Norwegian is forsvinning

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