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The vanishing act that everyone notices precisely because nobody saw it happen.
means The act or state of someone or something ceasing to be present or detectable, whether by leaving, hiding, or being lost.
from Built from the verb 'disappear,' itself stitched together in the late Middle Ages from the prefix 'dis-' (a Latin negator meaning 'apart' or 'not') and 'appear,' which traces back through Old French 'aparoir' to Latin 'apparere,' 'to come into view' (from 'ad-,' toward, plus 'parere,' to be visible). So at its root, to disappear is literally to un-show oneself. The noun form '-ance,' from Latin '-antia,' simply turns that vanishing into a thing you can name after it's happened.
- missing scale
- Around 600,000 people vanish yearly in the US alone
- most return
- The vast majority are found within days
- Bermuda myth
- Triangle disappearances match the global ocean average
- legal limbo
- Most places declare death after seven absent years
- famous unsolved
- Amelia Earhart's 1937 vanishing still has no body
malaysia airlines flight 370 — boeing 777 vanished over indian ocean on march 8, 2014 with 239 people aboard
amelia earhart — aviator disappeared over pacific ocean on july 2, 1937 during attempt to circumnavigate globe
dyatlov pass incident — nine soviet hikers found dead in ural mountains on february 26, 1959 under mysterious circumstances