Abeyance

What do we mean by abeyance?

The condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension. noun

A condition of undetermined ownership, as of an interest in an estate that has not yet vested. noun

In law, a state of expectation or contemplation. noun

A state of suspended action or existence, or temporary inactivity. noun

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. noun

Suspension; temporary suppression. noun

Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended. noun

Temporary cessation or suspension noun

Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.

Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.

Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.

The condition of being temporarily set aside. Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension. Urban Dictionary

A form of electronica that does not progress but instead keeps a more stagnant form of repetition to it's rhythm. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to abeyance:
abeyance, abeyancy, aberrance, beyonce, abeyant, abidance, abearance, amenance, abodance.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word abeyance:
abeyant, barony, baroness, terminated, slane, dacre, shinty, scrope, fane, favour, earldom, hon, peerage, baron, heirs, writ, claimant, summons, darcy, shortlist, revived, countess, anglo, daughters, pending, sisters, descendant, marquess, heir, precedence, hastings, thirteenth, frances, holder, lady, eldest, elder, illegitimate, grandson, earl, termination, eleanor, inherited, lords, sovereign, baronet, summoned, descendants, viscount, granddaughter, edith, surviving, succeeded, byron, petition, cecil, elizabeth, anne, charlotte, windsor, margaret, zimbabwe, joan, widow, ceremonial, nephew, rachel, estates, sister, clinton, diana, nineteenth, abolished, grey, cousin, resolved, catherine, younger, daughter, lucy, hugh, lord, duke, twentieth, edward, doctrine, mary, death, strange, succession, tenth, sir, shah, titles, herbert, title, uncle, temporarily, deemed, creation.

Words that rhyme with abeyance:
conveyance, faience, fayence, deed of conveyance.

Adjectives that are often used to describe abeyance:
complete, temporary, total, partial, long, practical, french, perpetual, comparative, absolute, virtual, relative, momentary, entire, strict, permanent, utter, apparent, habitual, mental, effective, perfect, strange, functional, due, definitive, dull, indefinite, delicate, continued, brief, radical, mere, uneasy, marked, precarious, painful, voluntary, silent, quiet, intellectual, reverent, restful, passive, costly, cognitive, stern, enormous, surgery, deliberate, ephemeral, occasional, spanish, extinct, plebeian, parliamentary, watchful, prolonged, patient, eternal, terrible, haphazard, compulsory.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective abeyance:
period.

Consonant match to abeyance:
abience.

Words that sound like abeyance:
abeyance, abience, abidance, abeyant, abaisance, abodance, absence, obeisance, appearance, appliance, abase, abates, obtains, apparence, abatis, abayas, sabeans, ambience, ambiance, aberrance, abearance, abyss, obsess, abbess, ob gyn, subsense, subtense, abuse, abuna, essence, alliance, abundance, obscene, obtain, obese, abs, announce, ebony, allowance, annoyance, tobias, abhorrence, upton, abuzz, ovens, obeying, apace, abbas, escence, unbalance, abrasions, tuppence, ebon, abaddon, eben, ibsen, ibn, abbadon, abondance, buoyance, annonce, ebonie, upson, unbias, aborn, libyans, abadan, eban, obolus, sabean, apus, abn, abets, abuts, upen, abena, ebben, abana, abox, abiah, uptowns, unpatience, aboon, adjacence, abattis, aboa, ebene, up one, abakus, abres, abassis, attonce, ebonise, ablations, about us, abren, aban, aben, abas, abban.