Disparition

Part of Speech

noun

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Translations

🇩🇪 unverständlich , 🇪🇸 inexplicable , 🇮🇹 inexplicabile , 🇵🇹 inexplicável , 🇨🇳 消失 , 🇯🇵 消滅 , 🇰🇷 설명할 수 없는 현상 , 🇸🇦 غير قابل للتفسير , 🇮🇳 अव्याख्यनीय

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Etymology

“Disparition” derives from the Latin noun *disparĭtiō*, formed from *dis-* ‘apart, away’ and *parĭtio* (from *parere* ‘to appear, to be found’), literally ‘the act of vanishing’. The term entered Old French in the 13th century as *disparition* with the same sense of disappearance, and later acquired the specialized meaning of an inexplicable or mysterious vanishing. Its spelling and sense have remained stable in modern French.

Synonyms

extinction silence absence invisibilité évanouissement fuite évanescence

Antonyms

apparition présence réapparition retour