waning

Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of wane

1. Becoming weaker or smaller.
2. Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.

1. The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
2. The fact or act of becoming smaller.

Etymology

From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -ing.