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- pronunciation:
- dIs
pi
rns
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
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the act of disappearing or condition of having vanished.
- antonyms:
- advent
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adjective + (n.)disappearance
abrupt,
alleged,
complete,
enforced,
eventual,
forced,
gradual,
imminent,
inevitable,
involuntary,
involved,
mysterious,
near,
obsessed,
permanent,
prime,
progressive,
rapid,
responsible,
simultaneous,
staged,
strange,
subsequent,
sudden,
ultimate,
unexplained,
unsolved,
utter,
virtual
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verb + (n.)disappearance
concern, connect, document, entail, fake, investigate, lament, mark, mourn, protest, solve, stage, surround, torture, trace, witness
(n.)disappearance
+ verb
coincide, contact, prompt
noun + (n.)disappearance
abduction,
anniversary,
appearance,
arrest,
arrival,
circumstance,
clue,
daughter,
decline,
detective,
detention,
eclipse,
execution,
explanation,
extinction,
humanity,
hundreds,
imprisonment,
investigation,
investigator,
involvement,
merger,
month,
murder,
mystery,
nation-state,
observer,
plus,
publicity,
statue,
suspect,
tattoo,
thousands,
timing,
torture,
tragedy,
triangle,
void,
wife
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The word disappearance
contains the following parts:
dis-
Latin
prefix
that means not; apart; reverse, negate
  More about this word part:
The prefix dis-
occurs in English attached to Latin roots, as in dissent
, but also forms words in English by attaching to verbs ( dishearten
) and nouns ( disbelief
). dis-
has two other forms, as the "s" sound in dis-
assimilates to the initial sound of the base to which it is attached. See the assimilated forms dif- and di-3.
Example words:
disable, disadvantage, disaffect, disagree, disagreeable, disallow, disappear, disappearance, disappoint, disapproval, disapprove, disarm, disarray, disbelief, discard, discolor, discomfort, disconnect, discord, discourteous, disdain, disengage, disgrace, disgust, dishearten, dishonest, disingenuous, disintegrate, disjoin, dislike, dislodge, dismantle, dismissal, disobey, disorder, disorient, disown, disparity, dispense, displace, display, displease, displeasure, disposable, disposal, disprove, disqualify, disregard, disrupt, dissatisfy, dissect, dissent, dissolution, dissolve, dissonant, dissuade, distort, distrust, disturb
- synonyms:
- de-, un-
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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