Synonyms:
abeyance, suspension
Meaning: temporary cessation or suspension
Usage examples
Men were for or against the bill--every other political subject was left in abeyance.
"If one were able to recall one's childhood--at the age of about twelve or thirteen--when the artistic impulse so often goes into abeyance and one begins to think in a troubled, monstrous way about God and Hell, one might get something like the mind of this place."