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Definition of Intermission

Intermission

  1. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
  2. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
  3. The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
  4. Intervention; interposition.

Intermission Quotations

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
Lady Gaga

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
Arnold H. Glasow

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
Grace Slick

As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
Lily Rabe
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Intermission Translations

intermission in Afrikaans is pouse
intermission in Dutch is rust, pauze
intermission in Finnish is tauko
intermission in French is pause
intermission in Norwegian is pause, avbrytelse

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