Temporary cessation or suspension.

synonym: suspension.

Roget 507: expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight etc. 510.    contemplation, prospection^†, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon, vista; destiny etc. 152.    suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity etc. 455; anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus.    hope etc. 858; trust etc. (belief) 484; auspices etc. (prediction) 511; assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance.    ... show more

Roget 2: inexistence^†; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nonentity, nil; negativeness etc. adj.; nullity; nihility^†, nihilism; tabula rasa [Lat.], blank; abeyance; absence etc. 187; no such thing etc. 4; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion.    annihilation; extinction etc. (destruction) 162; extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.    ... show more

Roget 142: cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence^†.    intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping etc. v.; closure, stoppage, halt; arrival etc. 292.    pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture [U.S.].    dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado [Sp.]; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end etc. 67; death etc. 360.    ... show more

Dutch: onzekerheid, onbeheerdheid, onbeslistheid