fading

The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.

Noun

  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 […] - 1854, Herman Melville, Israel Potter:
  2. An Irish dance.
    • Fading is a fine jig. - 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679,...
  3. 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 - c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William...

Forms

fadings

Derived

antifading fadingness fading time nonfading photofading Ricean fading Rician fading Troxler fading Troxler's fading unfading

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of fade.
    • fading light; fading memory; fading reputation
    • With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and...