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Synonyms & Antonyms of parenthesis
a break in continuity
- there was a parenthesis of silence when the microphone momentarily lost power
Synonyms for parenthesis
- discontinuity,
- gap,
- hiatus,
- hiccup
- (also hiccough),
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermission,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interstice,
- interval
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The first known use of parenthesis was in 1548
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