THIN AIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thin air mean? 

• THIN AIR (noun)
  The noun THIN AIR has 1 sense:

1. nowhere to be found in a giant void

  Familiarity information: THIN AIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIN AIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nowhere to be found in a giant void

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

it vanished into thin air

Hypernyms ("thin air" is a kind of...):

nihility; nothingness; nullity; void (the state of nonexistence)

 Context examples 

Liquid water can't last in the thin air of Mars; with so little air pressure, it evaporates from a solid to a gas when exposed to the atmosphere.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

The aspects in February will be as rare as sparkling diamonds, so use them or see them eventually vanish into thin air.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He cannot melt into thin air nor disappear through cracks or chinks or crannies.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The puzzling appearance of an ice cloud seemingly out of thin air has prompted NASA scientists to suggest that a different process than previously thought — possibly similar to one seen over Earth's poles — could be forming clouds on Saturn's moon Titan.

(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)