'Cessation' definitions:
Definition of 'cessation'
From: WordNet
noun
A stopping; "a cessation of the thunder" [syn: cessation, surcease]
Definition of 'Cessation'
From: GCIDE
- Cessation \Ces*sa"tion\ (s[e^]s*s[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [F. cessation, L. cessatio, fr. cessare. See Cease.] A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. [1913 Webster]
- The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. --Sir J. Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.
- Syn: Stop; rest; stay; pause; discontinuance; intermission; interval; respite; interruption; recess; remission. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cessation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandonment,
- abeyance,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- absentation,
- apodosis,
- breach,
- break,
- caesura,
- casting away,
- catastrophe,
- cease,
- ceasing,
- close,
- closing,
- coda,
- cold storage,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- dead set,
- dead stand,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- death,
- decease,
- decline,
- denouement,
- desistance,
- destination,
- destiny,
- desuetude,
- discontinuance,
- disuse,
- doom,
- dying down,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- evacuation,
- expiration,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- fissure,
- forbearance,
- forsaking,
- full stop,
- gap,
- goal,
- halt,
- hiatus,
- homestretch,
- interim,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- interval,
- izzard,
- jettison,
- jettisoning,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last lap,
- last round,
- last stage,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- leaving,
- letup,
- lock,
- lull,
- nonexercise,
- omega,
- pause,
- payoff,
- period,
- peroration,
- pulling out,
- quietus,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- stand,
- standstill,
- stillstand,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- throwing overboard,
- waiver,
- wane,
- waning,
- windup,
- withdrawal,
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