All interregnum synonyms

noun interregnum

• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
• hesitation — the act of hesitating; a delay due to uncertainty of mind or fear: His hesitation cost him the championship.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
• closure — The closure of a place such as a business or factory is the permanent ending of the work or activity there.
• vacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
• holiday — Billie ("Lady Day") 1915–59, U.S. jazz singer.
• reprieve — to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
• relief — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
• relaxation — abatement or relief from bodily or mental work, effort, application, etc.
• truce — a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
• meantime — the intervening time: The party is Tuesday, but in the meantime I have to shop and prepare the food.
• breathing space — A breathing space is a short period of time between two activities in which you can recover from the first activity and prepare for the second one.
• lull — to put to sleep or rest by soothing means: to lull a child by singing.
• respite — a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief: to toil without respite.
• idyll — a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.
• latency — the state of being latent.
• quiescence — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
• suspension — the act of suspending.
• dormancy — the state of being dormant.
• abeyance — a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
• doldrums — A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks – so called by sailors.
• cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
• period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
• comma — A comma is the punctuation mark , which is used to separate parts of a sentence or items in a list.
• playtime — time for play or recreation.
• space — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
• opening — an open or clear space.
• season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
• distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
• term — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
• while — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
• ten — a cardinal number, nine plus one.
• five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• hush — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
• discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
• stillness — silence; quiet; hush.
• stopover — a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
• hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
• standstill — a state of cessation of movement or action; halt; stop: The ball rolled to a standstill.
• caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
• stand — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
• deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
• pardon — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?