1350-1400;Middle Englishcessacio(u)n < Latincessātiōn- (stem of cessātiō) delay, inactivity, stoppage, equivalent to cessāt(us) past participle of cessāre to delay, stop (cess(us) yielded, ceded (ced-cede + -tus past participle suffix) + -ātus-ate1) + -iōn--ion
Synonyms
stop, halt, end, suspension, stay, recess.
Examples from the web for cessation
Happiness and smoking cessation can spread the same way.
Perhaps cessation of building altogether is the unstated solution--a novel idea, but one with little practicality.
It involves of course the ultimate cessation of all perceptible happening, and the end of human history.
The formally worded announcement did not specifically mention the earthquake as the reason for the cessation of development.
But the nation soon learned that the cessation of active war did not necessarily mean the inauguration of peace.
There may also be a slow process of degeneration in the cortex, with the cessation of neural input from the eye.
What happened next seems to live on in his fiction's patterns of abrupt cessation.
These are the fruits which a dull ease and cessation of our knowledge will bring forth among the people.
They threw fire and burning brands about the streets, and all night long they ran howling and singing without cessation.
There was a cessation of nearly every sort of productive activity except such as contributed to military operations.
British Dictionary definitions for cessation
cessation
/sɛˈseɪʃən/
noun
1.
a ceasing or stopping; discontinuance; pause: temporary cessation of hostilities
Word Origin
C14: from Latin cessātiō a delaying, inactivity, from cessāre to be idle, desist from, from cēdere to yield, cede
Word Origin and History for cessation
n.
mid-15c., cessacyoun "interruption, abdication," from Latin cessationem (nominative cessatio) "a delaying, ceasing, tarrying," noun of action from past participle stem of cessare "delay" (see cease (n.)).