vanishingly

1. 1.

   so as to disappear or approach zero

   “errors are vanishingly rare”

Questions about vanishingly

What does vanishingly mean?

vanishingly means "so as to disappear or approach zero".

How many syllables are in vanishingly?

vanishingly has 4 syllables: va-ni-shin-gly. The stress falls on "ni".

Is vanishingly a common word?

vanishingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.