Fading

[fadĀ·ing]

Weakening in force or intensity

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Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.

Noun
weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fade

a.
Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.

n.
Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.

n.
An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.


Fading

Fad"ing , a. Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor. -- n. Loss of color, freshness, or vigor. -- Fad"ing*ly, adv. -- Fad"ing*ness, n.

Fading

Fad"ing, n. An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song. "Fading is a fine jig." [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.

An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.

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Usage Examples

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

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