Synonyms of pause

1 Syllable

staying, halt, stay, stop, stayed, gap, break, layoff, lull, nap, hitch, rest, hush, stand

2 Syllables

deadlock, forbear, comma, hiatus, loiter, standstill, truce, halted, demur, layovers, break-off, let-up, breathers, cutoff, tarried, scrupled, tarrying, forbears, loiters, letup, wind-down, tarry, scruple, freeze, stammer, lapse, stillness, napped, demurs, breakoff, breather, stopping, gridlock, time-out, stammers, wavers, remain, scrupling, layover, desist, timeout, waver, recess

3 Syllables

caesura, suspensions, adjournment, stuttering, bivouacking, suspension, interval, loitered, quiescency, cessations, microsleep, downtime, impasse, stopover, stoppage, bivouacked, remained, detente, cessation, respite, loitering, stammering, abeyance, forborne, timidness, stopovers, desisting, demurring, lacuna, pausation, forbore, wavered, demurred, interim, stammered, deferment, deferrals, leisure

4 Syllables

discontinuing, requiescence, reluctancy, somnolence, postponement, interruption, hesitancy, hesitation, desistance, intermissions, deescalation, discontinue, interlude, intermission, moratorium, stalemate, interspace, interregnum, moratoriums, superego, hesitate, hesitated, motionlessness, vacillate, interruptions, vacillated, hesitations

5 Syllables

procrastinated, procrastination, irresolution, procrastinate, discontinuance, de-escalation, discontinuities, discontinuation, procrastinating, discontinuity, tentativeness

6 Syllables

indecisiveness, irresoluteness