HIATUS Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

hiatus

noun

hī-ˈā-təs

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as in gap

an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) steam was rising from a hiatus in the ground

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as in void

an incomplete or deficient area a hiatus in the law which prevented the district attorney from prosecuting the offenders

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as in interruption

a break in continuity a three-year hiatus before the fifth book in the series appeared

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Recent Examples of hiatus At long last, after a 12-year hiatus, true best-on-best hockey is back with the NHL’s return to the Olympics. —

Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026 Anya Taylor-Joy is bringing back her bob after a nearly 10-year hiatus. —

Hannah Malach, InStyle, 3 Feb. 2026 Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company is taking a hiatus from New Shepard spaceflights in West Texas for at least two years. —

Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026 No Dan + Shay, no Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, no Code Orange (still on hiatus) and no Mac Miller. —

Scott Mervis, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hiatus

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hiatus

Noun

Engineers have struggled to close the reaction gap between human perception and machine processing without sacrificing accuracy.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
There’s a dusty cloud surrounding the central, contracting star, and that cloud is strongly suspected to be disk-like, with outflows and gaps in the dust in the two directions perpendicular to the disk.

— Big Think, Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026