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fading
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fading has 1 sense
- fading(n = noun.event) attenuation - weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound" is a kind of weakening
Derived forms verb fade4, verb fade2
CIDE DICTIONARY
fading, a.
Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor. [1913 Webster]
fading, n.
An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fading
achromatization, aging, atmospherics, blackout, blanching, blaring, blasting, bleach, bleaching, blind spot, blocking, brittle, capricious, changeable, comedown, coming apart, corruptible, cracking, crawling, creeping, crumbling, debasement, decadence, decadency, decadent, deciduous, declension, declination, decline, declining, decoloration, decolorization, decolorizing, deformation, degeneracy, degenerate, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, dematerialization, demotion, departure, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descent, deteriorating, deterioration, devolution, diminishing, disappearance, disappearing, discoloration, disintegrating, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, doting, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, draining, drift, drooping, drop, dwindling, dying, ebb, ebbing, eclipse, effete, effeteness, elimination, ephemeral, erasure, etiolation, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fade-out, fadeaway, fadeout, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling, falling-off, fickle, flagging, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, fragmenting, frail, fugacious, fugitive, getting on, going, going to pieces, growing old, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, interference, involution, languishing, lapse, lightening, loss of tone, madder bleach, marcescent, market bleach, melting, momentary, mortal, mutable, noise, nondurable, nonpermanent, occultation, paling, passing, perishable, pining, receding, reception, regression, regressive, retiring, retreating, retrocession, retrogradation, retrograde, retrogression, retrogressive, senescent, short-lived, shrinking, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slippage, slipping, slump, slumping, static, subsiding, tabetic, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vanishing, vanishing point, volatile, wane, waning, wasting, whitening, wilting, wipe, withering, worsening
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