suspension

Noun

Meaning

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation

Of labor, study, pain, etc.

Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.

Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.

Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.

Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.

Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.

A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.

The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.

A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.

A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

interruption intermission stop break halt pause delay hanging cessation discontinuation stoppage dangling temporary removal rest excommunication
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Antonyms

example beginning action battle act convocation
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Hypernyms

support break supporting mixture interval interruption

Hyponyms

rest hold slip relief delay wait

Related terms

suspend suspensive suspense suspenseful suspender suspensorium

Phrases with the word

suspension of hostilities suspension system colloid suspension duty-suspension suspension of civil rights suspension point

Examples

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. Rita Mae Brown

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. Norman Mailer

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. Lionel Trilling

The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two year suspension for a lawyer caught having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. Haha! Jokes on you, dummies...I'm not really a lawyer. Tina Fey

Every suspension of offensive action, either from erroneous views, from fear or from indolence, is in favor of the side acting defensively. Carl von Clausewitz

Close letter words and terms

suspenser suspensibility suspensible suspension bracket suspension bridge suspension component