Vanishers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A group of individuals or things that cause disappearance or evanescence; entities that make an object or person cease to be visible or present; elements that lead to the obliteration or removal from existence or memory
2. Collections of agents that render something unseen or absent; forces that facilitate the fading away of items or people; entities responsible for erasing or eliminating from sight or awareness
3. Beings or objects that enable the sudden absence or loss of visibility; actors that contribute to the obscurement or withdraw of presence; agents that facilitate the removal or cessation of existence

Etymology: "Vanishers" is the plural of "vanisher," formed from the verb "vanish" with the agent suffix "-er," so it names those things or people that cause something to vanish. The verb "vanish" came into English from Anglo-Norman and Old French "vanir," which descends from Latin "evanescere," meaning to fade away or dissolve into thin air. The suffix "-er" is the familiar English ending that turns an action into a doer, as in "baker" or "singer." The formation is plain and transparent, so the word's interest lies mainly in how the verb it rests on came to mean something so abrupt: Latin "evanescere" was built from "e-" (out) and "vanescere," an inchoative form of "vanus," empty or void. A thing that vanishes, in this sense, passes out into emptiness.

Synonyms: disappears, eliminators