intermission

intermission is a Noun

Definition:

[1] The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson.

[2] Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.

[3] The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

[4] Intervention; interposition. [Obs.] Heylin.