cessation (n.)

• abandonment
• abeyance
• abjuration
• breach
• break
• caesura
• catastrophe
• cease
• close
• closing
• coda
• conclusion
• consummation
• culmination
• curtain
• deadlock
• death
• decease
• decline
• denouement
• destination
• destiny
• desuetude
• discontinuance
• disuse
• doom
• ebb
• ebbing
• effect
• end
• ending
• envoi
• epilogue
• eschatology
• evacuation
• expiration
• fate
• finale
• finality
• finis
• finish
• fissure
• forbearance
• forsaking
• gap
• goal
• halt
• hiatus
• homestretch
• interim
• intermission
• interruption
• interval
• izzard
• lacuna
• lapse
• last
• leaving
• letup
• lock
• lull
• omega
• pause
• payoff
• period
• peroration
• quietus
• relinquishment
• renouncement
• renunciation
• resignation
• resolution
• stand
• standstill
• stop
• stoppage
• subsidence
• suspension
• term
• terminal
• termination
• terminus
• waiver
• wane
• waning
• windup
• withdrawal