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Vanishing point

noun

The point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist.

The appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge.

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"Vanishing point" Quotes from Famous Books

... the inner soul, and end with the death-resembling Unio Mystica; here we find, too, in the last degree the unattainable ideal, which like a star in heaven shall give a sure course to the voyage of our life. The viewing of the exalted anagogic conception as a perspective vanishing point, makes allowance for the possible errors of superposition in the anagogic aspect ...

— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

Words linked to "Vanishing point" : visual aspect, perspective, linear perspective, appearance, point