Synonyms and related words :
abeyance, alternation, arrhythmia, beat, break, broken thread, brokenness, caesura, capriciousness, cease-fire, choppiness, coffee break, cyclicalness, day off, desultoriness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, downtime, drop, eccentricity, episode, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, half time, half-time intermission, hesitation, holiday, incoherence, incompleteness, inconstancy, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittency, interregnum, interruption, interval, irregularity, jerkiness, lapse, layoff, letup, lull, meter, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, off-time, oscillation, parenthesis, patchiness, pause, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plateau, point of repose, pulsation, quiet spell, reappearance, recess, recurrence, regular wave motion, relief, remission, reoccurrence, respite, rest, resting point, return, rhythm, roughness, seasonality, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stand-down, stay, suspension, time off, time out, truce, uncertainty, undulation, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacation, variability, whimsicality, wobble