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Abeyance vs Hiatus - What's the difference?

abeyance | hiatus |

As nouns the difference between abeyance and hiatus

is that abeyance is expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title while hiatus is a gap in a series, making it incomplete.

abeyance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
    • The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
    When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance . -Blackstone
  • Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, page 376:
    • Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance .
  • (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
    • The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.

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    hiatus

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
  • An interruption, break or pause.
  • An unexpected break from work.
    • The band took a hiatus for three months.
  • (geology) A gap in geological strata.
  • (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
    • Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
  • (linguistics)
  • # A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
  • # The condition of having such a break.
  • Words like'' reality ''and'' naïve ''contain vowels in hiatus .

    • Synonyms

    * break (1)