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Postponement vs Interruption - What's the difference?

postponement | interruption |

As nouns the difference between postponement and interruption

is that postponement is a delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding while interruption is the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.

postponement

English

Noun

(postponements)
  • A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
  • :The lawyer asked for a postponement in the trial so he could spend more time preparing before it began.
  • interruption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption , for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"
  • A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.
  • See also

    * dead air