intermission
in ter mi shuhn
- n the act of suspending activity temporarily
- n a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- The Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago played three works competently before the intermission.
- Most are short (waiting out an intermission is apparently too much to ask of an audience these days), slight and largely oblivious to much that is happening in the world outside .
- If Act I is consensual sex as an adult with your dad and Act II is making a meal of your grandmother's ashes, then we're sticking around through intermission.