cease vs vanish

cease is a noun but vanish is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cease	Yes	No	Yes	No
vanish	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, vanish is a hyponym of cease; that is, vanish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cease:

cease: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
vanish: cease to exist

cease (noun)	vanish (noun)
(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end

cease (verb)	vanish (verb)
put an end to a state or an activity	get lost, as without warning or explanation
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical	decrease rapidly and disappear
	cease to exist
	pass away rapidly
	become invisible or unnoticeable