(n.) Act or state of intermitting; intermission.

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