fading

Etymology

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 powerful. 2013-10-19, Banyan, “The meaning of Sachin”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858

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. (obsolete) An Irish dance.
3. (obsolete) The burden of a song.