See also: fade in, fade-out, and fade out

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Deverbal from fade out.

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fadeout (plural fadeouts)

  1. A gradual disappearance or fading away.
    • 2009 February 17, Howard W. French, “Surviving a Hitch in an Army of Boys”, in New York Times[1]:
      The scene ends with a fadeout to unconsciousness.
    • 1959, United States, Rescue and Survival Specialist, Department of the Air Force, pages 3–22:
      Radio fadeouts in the arctic are caused by solar explosions and sunspot activity.