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fading

  • /ˈfeɪdɪŋ/

Rhymes with -eɪdɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of fade fading light; fading memory; fading reputation

noun fadings

  1. The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment. […] the rude earth of the wall had no painted lustre to shed off all fadings and tarnish […]
  2. obsolete An Irish dance. Fading is a fine jig.
  3. obsolete The burden of a song. He has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: attenuation, paling, decreasing, diminished, dissipative, dimming, disappearing, blur, dim, discoloured, evanescent, multipath, desalinated, dissipating, diminishing, decaying

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@misc{fading_2026,
  title = {fading},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fading},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}