cessation

US/sɛˈseɪʃən/

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,809 of 15,258mostly written

A cessation is a stopping of something. A cessation of hostilities, smoking cessation, immediate cessation.

It is the formal word of treaties and medicine: a cessation of hostilities is short of peace, and smoking cessation is the clinical term for quitting. It is a different word from cession, which means handing something over.

Definitions of cessation

1nouncessationA stopping of something.C1
“Doctors strongly advise the cessation of smoking before any operation.”

cessation is a stopping.

Where it comes from

Latin cessatio comes from cessare, to stop, from cedere, to yield.

Latin
cessātiō
Middle French
cessation
English, today
cessation

Borrowed from Middle French cessation, itself a borrowing from Latin cessātiō. by surface analysis, cease + -ation. Compare cession < cede.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

cessation in the wild

An armistice is also different from a truce or ceasefire, which refer to a temporary cessation of hostilities for an agreed limited time or within a limited area.
Armistice
Smoking cessation, usually called quitting smoking or stopping smoking, is the process of discontinuing tobacco smoking.
Smoking cessation
Smoking cessation significantly reduces the risk of dying from smoking-related diseases.
Smoking cessation
Unlike declarations of a cessation of hostilities or a truce, a cease-fire is generally meant to be binding.
Ceasefire
Like a cessation of hostilities or truce, it is only temporary in nature but is generally expected to last for a longer period of time.
Ceasefire

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

← Vocabulary