Synonyms:
cessation, surcease
Meaning: a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder"
Usage examples
Again, when pleasure ceases, that sort of rest or cessation will be painful?
Let us not, then, be induced to believe that pure pleasure is the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.
Look at the other class of pleasures which have no antecedent pains and you will no longer suppose, as you perhaps may at present, that pleasure is only the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.
The Grassdale people liked us, and me and Andy declared a cessation of hostilities, never so much as floating the fly leaf of a rubber concession prospectus or flashing a Brazilian diamond while we was there.