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Fading vs Fastness - What's the difference?

fading | fastness |

As nouns the difference between fading and fastness

is that fading is the act of something that fades; gradual diminishment while fastness is a secure or fortified place; a stronghold, a fortress.

As a verb fading

is .

fading

English

Verb

(head)
  • .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-19, volume=409, issue=8858, magazine=(The Economist), author=Banyan
  • , title= The meaning of Sachin , passage=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.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.
  • * 1854 , (Herman Melville), (Israel Potter)
  • (obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Fading is a fine jig.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • delicate burthens of dildos and fadings
    (Webster 1913)

    fastness

    English

    Noun

  • A secure or fortified place; a stronghold, a fortress
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1917 , year_published=1917 , edition= , editor= , author= , title= , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=archive.org , isbn= , page= , passage=The incubators are built in remote fastnesses , where there is little or no likelihood of their being discovered by other tribes. }}
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights. She saw them dramatically, and really seemed herself to live a larger life because she entertained them and visited them in their fastnesses .
  • The state of being fast.
  • # firmness, security
  • # rapidity, swiftness
  • The ability of a dye to withstand fading